The Nikons that support CLS (Nikon TTL) use preflashes to control the other flashes. If you use the onboard flash it's visible light, an SU-800 (control only, no flash) is all infrared, not sure on the SB-800/900. You do get a bit of light from the onboard flash that will contribute to the exposure, but for most situations this won't cause an issue.
Also apparently the Pocket Wizards support all of the Canon TTL flash features (though not Nikon yet). But they cost......
Well I guess it depends on how much they want to spend on tapes. Not sure what SDLTs run for anymore. As long as you've got decent software you should be able to work out a rotation that suits your needs & budget.
I haven't played with CommVault, but may be looking at it this year. I'm currently running HP Dataprotector which I quite like. I haven't used it in a small setting, but at approx. $1,500 or so for the one drive version it gives you a lot out of the box. I know that's not cheap, but it does work quite well. As for network backups the basic license will do as many machines over the network as you want. I'm only using it with Windows, but it does support other OSs as well.
You can license other options on top of that such as Exchange & such. It's reasonably priced until you start getting into the fancy stuff.
It's the first backup software I've used that doesn't irritate me too much.
Had the same thing. I live in Bermuda. A number of years ago the ISPs didn't have local interconnects. To ping the next office would go over to the US, rattle around the east coast for a bit & then bounce back to the island. You could easily be 20 hops to cover a 100m or so.
Oh it's replicated offsite. The tapes are archival & last resort. I never touch them anymore, but it's nice to know they're there. I still like having an off line copy somewhere. Though there's some great disk based systems.
I haven't had time to look at Exchange 2007, but I'd guess they're planning on using VSS more. That would give you the snapshots. But I also like to have things on tape anyways, just in case & somewhere else.
Not that I like people using email for file storage & transfer it's not that bad. Exchange does use a single instance store, so you only end up with one copy of the file in the database.
I found a user who emailled a 1 GB file a while back....
Oddly I've got 4.3 GB, 4.1 GB, 3.9 GB, 3.9 GB, 3.2 GB, etc. News to me that Exchange can only now support 2 GB mailboxes. 2 GB archives however were rather painful.
But seriously a 25 - 50 MB mailbox is no use to anyone. I do fairly agressive cleanup & I'm at 220 MB. It would be nice if my users didn't keep so much, but if they need it, oh well.
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The Nikons that support CLS (Nikon TTL) use preflashes to control the other flashes. If you use the onboard flash it's visible light, an SU-800 (control only, no flash) is all infrared, not sure on the SB-800/900. You do get a bit of light from the onboard flash that will contribute to the exposure, but for most situations this won't cause an issue.
Also apparently the Pocket Wizards support all of the Canon TTL flash features (though not Nikon yet). But they cost......
Damn kids these days...
I always find these threads after everybody else with the four digits has posted.
Bugger.
No idea. Hell, I have no idea if I'll like their album or not. But I'm going to download & give them money just for letting me be able to it.
If I don't like it, oh well. If I do, great. Either way I'm supporting an artist who has the right idea.
Odd, I use the browser on my Blackberry almost every day on the train & get annoyed at how slow it is.
I've have a similar attitude when boating.
"How do you know where all the reefs are?"
"I've hit most of them."
Doh. Helps if I read properly. DP doesn't do encrypted backups. Other than that I'd recommend it.
Well I guess it depends on how much they want to spend on tapes. Not sure what SDLTs run for anymore. As long as you've got decent software you should be able to work out a rotation that suits your needs & budget.
I haven't played with CommVault, but may be looking at it this year. I'm currently running HP Dataprotector which I quite like. I haven't used it in a small setting, but at approx. $1,500 or so for the one drive version it gives you a lot out of the box. I know that's not cheap, but it does work quite well. As for network backups the basic license will do as many machines over the network as you want. I'm only using it with Windows, but it does support other OSs as well.
You can license other options on top of that such as Exchange & such. It's reasonably priced until you start getting into the fancy stuff.
It's the first backup software I've used that doesn't irritate me too much.
Had the same thing. I live in Bermuda. A number of years ago the ISPs didn't have local interconnects. To ping the next office would go over to the US, rattle around the east coast for a bit & then bounce back to the island. You could easily be 20 hops to cover a 100m or so.
Oh it's replicated offsite. The tapes are archival & last resort. I never touch them anymore, but it's nice to know they're there. I still like having an off line copy somewhere. Though there's some great disk based systems.
Thanks for the link.
The pst limit in Outlook 2003 is somewhere near 20 GB. Does get a bit chunky though.
I haven't had time to look at Exchange 2007, but I'd guess they're planning on using VSS more. That would give you the snapshots. But I also like to have things on tape anyways, just in case & somewhere else.
Oh I agree. But sometimes it's easier to let the users do silly things. Choose the battles you can win.
OT: I've finally stopped my users copying a 5 GB zip over a 2 Mb VPN link and then unzipping it. On their local PC. To the remote site.
Not that I like people using email for file storage & transfer it's not that bad. Exchange does use a single instance store, so you only end up with one copy of the file in the database.
I found a user who emailled a 1 GB file a while back....
Oddly I've got 4.3 GB, 4.1 GB, 3.9 GB, 3.9 GB, 3.2 GB, etc. News to me that Exchange can only now support 2 GB mailboxes. 2 GB archives however were rather painful.
But seriously a 25 - 50 MB mailbox is no use to anyone. I do fairly agressive cleanup & I'm at 220 MB. It would be nice if my users didn't keep so much, but if they need it, oh well.
Try this.
Needs GE 4 to work.
Oh yeah...
Just because I don't post doesn't mean that I don't waste time here. Some of us waste plenty of time lurking.
And I've got about 45 GB of Excel files for 35 users. Quite a few of which are in the 80 - 100 MB range.
And don't let actuaries anywhere near storage.
If you want proper speaker connectors then Speakons are great. Lockable, 2, 4 & 8 pole flavours.
2 pole Speakon
The Screaming Meanie
Ok, not subtle & the neighbours will hate you, but if you can sleep through *that* nothing will wake you up.
Well you won't find a 632 number in Bermuda, so that rules out the 441 area code.
Well I had some kerosene last night. Nicer than gasoline. No, I'm not joking. My hands still stink of the stuff.
Novell Groupwise will let you delete messages from a recipient's mailbox if they haven't opened it yet. Once they open however, they get to keep their copy.