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Using an alternate networker interface for Solstice Backup

8 Jan 2002 1 minute read 2976 visits.

This document was written to force backups to use the 100Mbs interface cards on the Solstice Backup server and the Solstice Backup client

3 Dec 2001 1 minute read 998 visits.

The Ping of Death attack, first seen in 1996, is achieved using the Internet control message protocol, or ICMP (hence the name ?Ping of Death?).

5 Nov 2001 1 minute read 2626 visits.

With Solstice Backup 6.1 a new parameter savegroup parallelism was introduced for load balancing reasons.

19 Oct 2001 5 minute read 724 visits.

Every good program that can be used from the UNIX shell should be documented with a good man page.

29 Sep 2001 3 minute read 2739 visits.

metaview is a simple script to pretty print the metastat output from disksuite showing all metadevices and mirror status side-by-side.

29 Sep 2001 1 minute read 2921 visits.

metatree is a simple awk script that pretty prints the Solstie DiskSuite 'metastat -p' output into a user friendly format.

9 Sep 2001 1 minute read 2707 visits.

Witihout using vxedit to change permissions VxVM device files go back to the defaults each time vxconfigd is enabled or the system rebooted.

15 Aug 2001 1 minute read 3797 visits.

This diagram is derived from the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Performance and Tuning course notes. Additional state paths have been added.

15 Aug 2001 2 minute read 3174 visits.

A rate occurrance where VxVM fails where we cannot import a diskgroup due to the Veritas configuration database become corrupt.

23 Jul 2001 1 minute read 2728 visits.

running NSRJB as a non-root user