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kitchen pc

otmanix — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:15:00 +0000

I discovered a new piece of case modding art in my hosts kitchen on New Year’s eve. Top applications are a media player and Chefkoch.de, a website with tons of recipes. The custom pc is said to have a high waf.

happy new year

otmanix — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:12:55 +0000

Dear Blog readers, I wish you a happy new year from rainy Germany.

May the force be with you!

please insert slowly…

otmanix — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:40:11 +0000

reading Datadomain OS release notes made my day:

When performing a DD OS upgrade using a USB key, make sure the USB key is inserted slowly into the Data Domain system’s USB socket. Two criteria can help you to judge how “slowly” to insert the key:
The LED on the USB key starts blinking after you’ve inserted the USB to the very end or, for a USB key with no LED display, make sure it takes more than one second to fully insert the USB key.

I assume this will be the next step:

Please fondle the hardware while doing the upgrade…

radio silence

otmanix — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:30:15 +0000

Hello out there!

You may have noticed that the frequency of new blog articles has decreased a lot. At the moment I need a break from blogosphere. On the one hand I want to spend my free time for doing other things like reading tons of books on my Amazon kindle. At the moment I’m reading “the last ring-bearer“. Tolkien fans with humour will enjoy this journey to middle earth where everything is different, the good guys are the bad ones and vice versa… On the other hand I don’t have a topic to blog about. I haven’t installed/used PS3 Media Server for months so I don’t see any reason in writing articles about that or doing support. Sorry folks, please visit the PMS forum for help.

If there is a new topic worth blogging you will find new articles here.

So have a good time. Bye, Otmanix

R.I.P. good bye c0t0d0s0.org

otmanix — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:45:20 +0000

One of the blogs I spent lots of time, reading infos about (Open) Solaris has gone.

Good bye, c0t0d0s0.org!

Networker user group meeting revisited

otmanix — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:15:21 +0000

What happened last tuesday? EMC invited to second Networker user group meeting in Germany which this time was located at Steigenberger airport hotel in Frankfurt.

EMC sent the Networker product manager as well as developers (see photo), support guys and trainer in order to show the roadmap and answer customer questions.

This event was really worth visiting it. Thanks to EMC for sending people with deep knowledge which were able to answer questions as well as discussing rfe and talking about the roadmap.

Networker user group meeting

otmanix — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:19:40 +0000

1h til beginning of Networker user group meeting in Steigenberger airport hotel in Frankfurt…
So I hope this will be a day full of new informations about backup and related technical stuff…

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PMS 1.22.0

otmanix — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:20:37 +0000

There’s a new major release 1.22.0 of PS3 Media Server available for download . You can find a list of recent changes in changelog.

cranes

otmanix — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:32:26 +0000

end of work day

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NDMP backup to Datadomain

otmanix — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:39:17 +0000

Today I migrated all NDMP-backups of our Netapp filers (FAS3140, FAS2040) into the new Networker backup environment.

You can see that the Datadomain DD670 is busy. Both filers all in all have an throughput of ~270MB/s via fibrechannel SAN. Both filers can access 4 “LTO1″ devices on VTL and therefore are able to backup 4 volumes simultanously.

The backups are running for the first time in new environment. This leads to forced full backups. You can see the feffect of inline deduplication even it this early stage:2,9TB written, but only 1,3TB used on disk (backup of filesystems for home folders, etc.). After several additional backups one should see higher space savings due to dedupe.

On our second DD670 one can alreday see that. Filesystem-backups of Windows, SLES and AIX (Backup OS and program files) are running there for 5 days.

The vtls have one disadvantage: there are so many drives … you don’t want to use nsrwatch anymore and enjoy NMC