Contents
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| September 2001 Volume 10 Number
9 |
Features
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What I Did Instead of Buying a SAN |
Adam Anderson |
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In situations where SAN technology is not cost-effective, Anderson has
used two alternative storage technologies that deliver SAN functionality
at reasonable cost.
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Disaster
Recovery with Tivoli Storage Manager |
Primitivo Cervantes |
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Cervantes discusses how to use the Disaster Recovery Module of TSM to
recover the TSM server and database in order to restore other systems'
data.
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High-Availability File
Server with heartbeat
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Steve Blackmon and John Nguyen |
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The authors provide step-by-step procedures for building a high-availability
file server for UNIX and Windows clients. Although the article focuses
on setting up a file server, the technique could be applied to other services.
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Creating a Cold Standby E250
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Michael Watson |
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Watson provides scripts for automating duplication and update activities
in this backup solution.
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Why Energy Consumption
Matters
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Gilbert Held |
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Held examines the energy consumption of several types of data center
equipment and shows how a small difference in the consumption level can
significantly affect the lifetime cost of equipment.
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A Flexible System for Centralized Backup
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Ed L. Cashin |
| This article describes a conceptual framework
for building open backup systems with readily available software. |
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Serial Storage Architecture Management
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Miles Purdy |
| Purdy explains SSA technology and shows examples
of how to manage SSA on RS/6000's as well as providing performance tips
and management scripts. |
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A Perl Package for Monitoring Traffic
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John Shearer
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The rtr-graph package described in Shearer's article is a set of
Perl scripts for polling routers (or other SNMP-enabled devices) to gain
specific traffic information.
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A Framework for Automated File Transfer
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George Callaway
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Callaway shares a set of portable scripts for file transfer.
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Checking Your System Logs with awk
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Jose Nazario
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Nazario provides some scripts to facilitate the log-checking process.
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Columns
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Understanding Oracle
Backup & Recovery
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W. Curtis Preston |
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Books: A User's
Report
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Elizabeth Zinkann |
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Questions and Answers
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Amy Rich |
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Editor's syslog |
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