You would not believe how many vendors & ISV’s I talk to throught the workweek. On any given day, I usually have to tell some poor sap “NO”, or “I am unintrested in your products, please stop calling”! It does take an enormous ammount of paitentce not to just hang up the phone, but I …

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 …