RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan
DD has a truly GREAT product; however it will not shrink your backup window if that is a concern. The backup application still has to send ALL of the data to the DD device for every full backup that you do. Avamar will shrink your backup window, as the De-dup is source based, not target based. T

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Do you want to do pure D2D? Or would you want to look at Virtual Tape? Do you have any plans for off-site storage? Or will you replicate to a separate site? Exagrid is one option, as it FalconStor. On the software side, you can look at products like Ultrabac, unless you're happy with your exi

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Chyka, Robert
Exagrid! From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk based backup Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Marty Nelson
Mind if I ask cost? -Marty - Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone. From: Richard Stovall Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup +1 We have a DD530 here and it has

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Stovall
+1 We have a DD530 here and it has been well worth the cost. A quick glance at the nightly emails shows that I threw about 2.8TB of raw data at it last Friday that took about 50GB or so of actual disk space. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.c

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
Check out Data Domain. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk based backup Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about this, but nothi

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan
EMC Avamar Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/> From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday

Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about this, but nothing jumped out at me. I have a 1-1/2 year old Tandberg Data T24 storage library and the drive just bit the dust six months out of warranty. Tandberg has told me (as expected,) "If i

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

2009-09-14 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Agreed. "Synthetic Fulls" have been around for a while. -sc -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups Been using Retrospect in this capacity s

Re: Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites & Services

2009-09-14 Thread Matt Plahtinsky
Same thing happen to me last week. Had the same problem. Went to sites and services on the last step and said I didn't have permission to remove it. Had to go to the parent folder of the object, right mouse click on folder go to the security tab and give the administrator accout full access. N

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

2009-09-14 Thread Andy Ognenoff
Been using Retrospect in this capacity since 2006 so maybe the concept is catching on. :) - Andy O. >-Original Message- >From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] >Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:10 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups > >Sy

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

2009-09-14 Thread John Cook
Synthetic backups are the current buzz word, I've heard it in 2 different pitches in the last 2 weeks. Sounds great if it actually delivers. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-69

RE: Restores from Incremental backups

2009-09-14 Thread Andy Ognenoff
On the smaller end of the price spectrum - Retrospect does something similar - they call it "synthetic full" backups but its really just perpetual incrementals. Full or selective restores are the same as if you were working from a true "full" backup. - Andy O. >-Original Message- >From:

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-14 Thread Ben Scott
2009/9/14 David Lum : > I don’t see this as OT at all, this is hugely relevant! Indeed. This is the NT sysadmin list, and the article is quite relevant to computer system administrators. For the record: When I was complaining about off-topic stuff recently, my complaint was about a combinati

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-14 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
ENTP here. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Managing Geeks Depending on the test, I register as either ISTP or INTP On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 19:34, Richard Stovall wro

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-14 Thread Mike French
I concur, I've been in a few BOD meetings and it was all I could do to just keep my mouth shut. I quit going due to the "poo" pile getting bigger then I like to shovel and in those situation's I have little to offer them for input. From: Jon Harris [mail

Re: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-14 Thread Jon Harris
>From my personal prospective I see that most of the people on government boards (volunteer), are either mainly BS'ers or just out of their depth and trying hard to keep up with the BS'ers pulling the wool over their eyes when ever they can. I have had to attend BOD meetings at my previous gig and

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-14 Thread David Lum
I don't see this as OT at all, this is hugely relevant! My two favorite quotes: · "Good IT pros are not anti-bureaucracy, as many observers think. They are anti-stupidity" · Periodically, bring a few key IT brains to the boardroom to observe the problems of the organization at l

Re: Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites & Services

2009-09-14 Thread Jon Harris
Sorry I got ahead of my self. You might want to move the object to another Site or empty the Site of all objects as well depending on exactly what you are doing. Jon On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Jon Harris wrote: > In ADSI look at the permissions to see if they are correct. > > Jon Harris

RE: Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites & Services

2009-09-14 Thread Sean Rector
Exactly what I just did - Schema Admin group did not have full control - fixed that, and I was able to delete it. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites &

Re: Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites & Services

2009-09-14 Thread Jon Harris
In ADSI look at the permissions to see if they are correct. Jon Harris On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Sean Rector wrote: > I’ve run through the steps in KB 216498, but when I get to removing the > object from AD Sites & Services, I get a Access is Denied. I’m using an > account that is a Dom

Manually remove dead AD DS AD Sites & Services

2009-09-14 Thread Sean Rector
I've run through the steps in KB 216498, but when I get to removing the object from AD Sites & Services, I get a Access is Denied. I'm using an account that is a Domain, Schema, Enterprise, DNS admin. I've also tried this from ADSI Edit with the same results. Sean Rector, MCSE Information Tec

Re: Win 7 Price

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It's not just about size, it's also about the mix of products that you use. We have less people than you (about 60), but more servers (over 150 right now), and use a mix of Microsoft products including SQL and Exchange. This gives us a lot of points for negotiating, even at our size. SA gives o