Suggestions for external storage for NW 6.5

[bytehd]

iSCSI seems it needs another NW server or a SNAP.
USB and FireWire are not even supported.
Seems like nasty expensive tape is still an option.
Backup Exec Win 10d disk to disk has no direct equiv on Netware.
Replication too hard to manage.
Clustering is too expensive.

Just add more internal drives/volumes and cron jobs
to back them up is what im doing now.
But its not removable.

cutting 9GB DVD are too small.....




George Walkey
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[LawnBoy]

BE 9.1 for Netware will do Backup to Disk (they refer to it as backup to folder).

 

[bytehd]

Ill look into it.
But how to connect the external storage for B2Disk....?

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

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[marvhuffaker]

NetWare 6.5 Does in fact support USB hard drives. NetWare 6.0 did not, maybe that's where you're confused. It doesn't support other USB stuff, just storage.

So you can take Lawnboys advice, backup to disk.. setup your backup to disk folder on your USB device.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[bytehd]

No way!
im going to take my USB 2.0 external 250GB down there and try it.
is it hot swap? pnp?
does NSS automatically detect it?

ill check the docs

George Walkey
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[bytehd]

http://support.novell.com/techcente...rnalId=10099387html&sliceId=&dialogID=2838630

http://support.novell.com/techcente...rnalId=10096651html&sliceId=&dialogID=2838630

cool
im going to test it out
formatting for NSS and FAT32

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com

 

[bytehd]

Works
what can I say.
Cool.

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com

 

[bytehd]

Too bad those DVD burners I just installed can be used in NSS....

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com

 

[LawnBoy]

Let me second that. I'd give my eye teeth for some CD or DVD burner software that'd run on NW6.5.

 

[bytehd]

Actually NovaNet cuts DVDs in NW 6.5
Im going to take a trial if they have one

George Walkey
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[bytehd]

Second whack at USB drives.
PCI USB 2.0 card helps alot since Dell still puts only
USB 1.1 in their PowerEdge servers, WTF?

You must partition and format the USB as an NSS filesystem
via nsssmu, but it works.

Then, Backup Exec can see it and backup to disk.
Coolness.

Removable SYS volumes for Disaster Recovery.
Im loving it...

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com