OT: BackupEDGE to the rescue...

[John Esak]

The details were easy... just look for a line in the space.c file for the
adapter that has:

   scan LUN 0

and change it to:

   scan LUN 1

(or very close to that... :-)

As for making Arnie smile... I think it would be easier to make one of the
guards at Buckingham Palace smile. :-)  Arnie, are you listening??? Cheer
up! :-)

John




> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:23 PM
> To: John Esak
> Subject: Re: OT: BackupEDGE to the rescue...
>
>
> 1) thanks for the reminder - i've 2 jukebox sites, both due for upgrade
> in 2 months, and though i do vaguely remember having to enable
> LUN support,
> i don't remember space.c stuff - it was 5 years ago when last i did it -
> what are the details, and was this OSR5 or OSR6?
>
> 2) bigger question - did you get arnie to smile???
>
> -joe
>
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:06:25PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> >
> > Just a quick note about how great BackupEDGE is for our Unix and Linux
> > systems. I was transferring my very old (like 20 year) SCO
> system to a new
> > box. For a while, like a tortuous couple days I thought nothing
> would ever
> > work right. Couldn't get the changer recognized, couldn't get
> the cd-rom to
> > work properly, etc., etc.  A phone call to Microlite and they
> helped me put
> > everything to rights. Most of it, in fact, probably all of it
> wasn't their
> > problem either. Of course, normally they would only support
> BackupEDGE but
> > they let me know some of the things I needed to do make it all
> work on the
> > new box and the new controller... and oddly (or not) enough, Adaptec
> > couldn't. :-(
> >
> > Most simple gotcha, is if you are using a changer (a jukebox)
> for your tapes
> > like I do, you must enable multiple LUN support in the driver for the
> > adapter (which I had done) *and* you must modify the space.c file of the
> > driver to allow this as well. I forgot doing this as the last
> time I did it
> > was about 7 years ago! :-)  Happily, Arnie at Microlite remembered this
> > after a awhile of us both scratching our heads... and
> everything is flying
> > back into place.
> >
> > Also, he told me the trick to restoring a full backup without having the
> > symlinks try and resolve.... which is always a great thing when
> you want to
> > put the whole old server in an "old" directory like I always do. (I have
> > something like 6 different "old" directories going back to my first NCR
> > machine circa 1985. I would hate to actually find anything
> going back that
> > far... but it is there for posterity when he comes around.
> >
> > Anyway, kudos to Microlite and their support as always. If you're in the
> > market for the best backup program available... they are the one to be
> > looking at. www.microite.com you won't be disappointed.
> >
> > John Esak
> >
> >
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