It depends on which backup product you were using. If you were using netbackup, which you should because the others are crap, the format's tar. Gnu tar actually, it more cross-platform.
Firstly, there was two methods for "urban renewal", one was indeed bulldozers and the other one had wings and big iron crosses on the side.
The latter was a lot cheaper but a lot more dangerous.
The point of it is that even without the luftwaffer there was poverty and destitution in these places like its difficult for someone in North America to understand. There was no electricity, no inside toilets and often the buildings were falling down round their ears.
The rows of highrise blocks that blight the inner cities of most large cities are unpleasant, and there's certainly no shops anymore, but it was horrible then and its horrible now.
There's an expression you here a lot in Britain, "when I was young you could leave you front door open, and nothing would be stolen".
As someone pointed out, "Thats because we had nothing worth nicking."
The question you have to ask yourself is what do these servers do?
I'm a systems administrator for a large utility and we have a range of different platforms, from a couple of OS/390 IBM Mainframes to a lot of SUN Servers (all types), to NT machines.
It seems likely that your employer has the same scenario.
Unix boxes have drastically more important tasks than the NT boxes, they maintain large database and run most of the mission critical systems in an organisation. They tend to be easily scalable from small dozen person operations to large national support (we have literally thousands of users).
But it takes VERY talented people to keep a system like this running smoothly. Your Unix people can go on holiday, but thats only because they spend a great deal of time ensuring that it isn't going to break.
NT people have smaller user group, less important tasks (they tend to run the front-end user faced systems which aren't very system intensive),and tend to be a lot less talented.
Mind you, saying that, it seems likely for that money you are employing contractors. You could do with re-assessing you employment policy.
For some job security, and a some respect to your employees you can get some decent permies that will cost a LOT less.
More that NT people though, like a say it takes more talent to do this job.
Irrespective of your lack of Historic knowledge - I'm sure that at that time the Americans would have loved Britain to be invaded by the French, they even helped the war effort by buying Louisiana off them.
Also, I'm British and can't even start to really understand imperial measurement. I know how much a pint is, I drink it a lot. I know how much a mile is too, can also cope with inches, feet and stones.
But I didn't use it in school and don't really understand it.
If I were to do some measuring, It would be metric all the way.
I only use imperial so that the old blokes can understand what I'm on about.
I weigh slightly over 12 stone. Any idea how many pounds in a stone?
One thing about watching the BBCs real video is that you get to see one of the world's most unlikely TV presenters - Partick Moore (the old bloke with the dodgy eyes in the beginning of the broadcast).
He has been broadcasting his programme (the sky at night) for so long, nobody can remember it not being on.
Also, as nobody watches it except for (former Queen Guitarist) Brian May, if it was taken off the air, and old Patrick was just stuck in a studio somewhere - sans camera, nobody would ever notice.
Who the bloody hell uses INTERNAL disks for production? Internals are for OS, duly mirrored onto the other internal.
Production services should be put on an external disk array (like a storEDGE box). This means that, you have an extendable number of disks, Fibre links back to the server, a copy of Veritas Volume Manager provided (I love vxvm).
The benefit of this is that you can balance controllers for performance; if you lose your server, you retain you data; you can HA (as much as you can with Solaris - big fat hole in there product line that one) over two servers.
of course this will cost you a lot of money, but at least you save money on Microsoft crap.
Incidently, given that I've spent the most part of a week trying to fix sendmail, don't bother with it, life too short.
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If you want dialup, have a look at uk2.net which have a free service. I can't guarentee the availability though. You get what you pay for.
Veritas uses some proprietary format on tape
It depends on which backup product you were using. If you were using netbackup, which you should because the others are crap, the format's tar. Gnu tar actually, it more cross-platform.
The support is expensive though.
One question I've got about patents (and I understand that they don't apply in the case anyway) is:
Isn't Samba Australian? As such wouldn't the patents be invalid here?
Little bit inaccurate of course.
Firstly, there was two methods for "urban renewal", one was indeed bulldozers and the other one had wings and big iron crosses on the side.
The latter was a lot cheaper but a lot more dangerous.
The point of it is that even without the luftwaffer there was poverty and destitution in these places like its difficult for someone in North America to understand. There was no electricity, no inside toilets and often the buildings were falling down round their ears.
The rows of highrise blocks that blight the inner cities of most large cities are unpleasant, and there's certainly no shops anymore, but it was horrible then and its horrible now.
There's an expression you here a lot in Britain, "when I was young you could leave you front door open, and nothing would be stolen".
As someone pointed out, "Thats because we had nothing worth nicking."
Now, that's what I call a full answer.
Well done.
Did you see that thing, "Hardcore" on Channel 4 last night? What the hell was that all about?
I'm a systems administrator for a large utility and we have a range of different platforms, from a couple of OS/390 IBM Mainframes to a lot of SUN Servers (all types), to NT machines.
It seems likely that your employer has the same scenario.
Unix boxes have drastically more important tasks than the NT boxes, they maintain large database and run most of the mission critical systems in an organisation. They tend to be easily scalable from small dozen person operations to large national support (we have literally thousands of users).
But it takes VERY talented people to keep a system like this running smoothly. Your Unix people can go on holiday, but thats only because they spend a great deal of time ensuring that it isn't going to break.
NT people have smaller user group, less important tasks (they tend to run the front-end user faced systems which aren't very system intensive),and tend to be a lot less talented.
Mind you, saying that, it seems likely for that money you are employing contractors. You could do with re-assessing you employment policy.
For some job security, and a some respect to your employees you can get some decent permies that will cost a LOT less.
More that NT people though, like a say it takes more talent to do this job.
OMS
You can sell it for whatever you like. That how the GPL works.
Redhat make money off a operating system given freely by the community. They therefore support people making money off their efforts.
Ain't open source great.
Mark.
Irrespective of your lack of Historic knowledge - I'm sure that at that time the Americans would have loved Britain to be invaded by the French, they even helped the war effort by buying Louisiana off them.
Also, I'm British and can't even start to really understand imperial measurement. I know how much a pint is, I drink it a lot. I know how much a mile is too, can also cope with inches, feet and stones.
But I didn't use it in school and don't really understand it.
If I were to do some measuring, It would be metric all the way.
I only use imperial so that the old blokes can understand what I'm on about.
I weigh slightly over 12 stone. Any idea how many pounds in a stone?
Mark.
Crap, I did that as well.
My friend, in Scotland their not.
Everybody's indiginous somewhere.
Mark.
One thing about watching the BBCs real video is that you get to see one of the world's most unlikely TV presenters - Partick Moore (the old bloke with the dodgy eyes in the beginning of the broadcast).
He has been broadcasting his programme (the sky at night) for so long, nobody can remember it not being on.
Also, as nobody watches it except for (former Queen Guitarist) Brian May, if it was taken off the air, and old Patrick was just stuck in a studio somewhere - sans camera, nobody would ever notice.
Play that funky xylophone white boy!
In the words of Red Dward, "What a guy!".
Mark.
Who the bloody hell uses INTERNAL disks for production? Internals are for OS, duly mirrored onto the other internal.
Production services should be put on an external disk array (like a storEDGE box). This means that, you have an extendable number of disks, Fibre links back to the server, a copy of Veritas Volume Manager provided (I love vxvm).
The benefit of this is that you can balance controllers for performance; if you lose your server, you retain you data; you can HA (as much as you can with Solaris - big fat hole in there product line that one) over two servers.
of course this will cost you a lot of money, but at least you save money on Microsoft crap.
Incidently, given that I've spent the most part of a week trying to fix sendmail, don't bother with it, life too short.
Mark.
Could, of course, be running Solaris x86.
A smug Solaris sys admin (with a terminal love of linux).
We get a few of this, this is called rule by tabloid.
Another classic is that the two little boys who killed the even littler Jamie Bulger might have seen Chucky 2.
by might, I mean that one of the boys father rented a copy about the time when this happened.