With my good friend, we have decided to lauch a new team blog that focuses on technology knowledge sharing. Both of us are IT Professionals, and have many years experience. Instead of being greedy and not sharing, we decided to listen to Tux & share the wealth of knowledge to the public. So check it out… its …

So.. Veritas finally has the answer. It was a problem with the tape backup device that we were using. Tried to backup/restore from disk… and it worked! Now I have to work up a proposal for a new backup server for Oracle!! Whoo Hoo!!! On a lighter note, I have been reviewing the documentation for …

Ok… Veritas is ignoring me!!! I am waiting paitently for some resolution on this, but to no avail! In the meantime, I have been working on Deploying the “Cisco VPN Client” via Group Policy. Group Policy is awesome… I have a renewed faith in Microsofts Enginering staff. Still not as good or …

Still not working as of yet. I have been on the Veritas support forums for 2 days now. I posted a question to there technical staff, and I got one responce: Update the client with a patch. I’ve update the RHEL server with the patch, and still no success. The problem is, I can backup anything from the RHEL3 …

One of my projects this year is to find a new backup solution for our Oracle servers. We currently use a software piece called “Lone Tar”. Great for backing up a single server, back in 1993… but with todays larger tape capacities, and the advent of tape libraries LT just doesn’t cut the …