News from PANUG/BizNix - July 15, 2003
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PANUG MEETING

It's been a few years since PANUG covered data backup
technologies at a monthly meeting. It's time for an
update. This Thursday, Yosemite Technologies will tell
us about the state of the art in backup technologies
and their product, TapeWare.

TapeWare 7 can run on and backs up Windows, NetWare,
Unix, and Linux with disaster recovery features and
centralized management. 

PANUG members will be eligible for a valuable door
prize - TapeWare Master Server Enterprise Pack edition
with Disaster Recovery valued at over $1000.

The meeting is this Thursday at 6:15 pm at Novell's
office in Tigard.


FEEDBACK
In response to Jim Bombardier's complaint about Qwest
s_p_a_m problems, Keith Brown responds:

I've installed a mail filter that, if it finds uswest.net
in the To: or associated headers it delivers it directly
into the trashcan. This is mostly effective, but sometimes
the MailerDaemon generates emails to internal users (like
me) addressing them to the me@uswest.net address.

The solution is rather simple really:  Just unlist the DNS
for uswest.net. Then in Qwest's own machines /etc/hosts
files, leave the entry in. The local machines will find
what they need and deliver the emails internally
(mis-)generated, but the s_p_a_m will all bounce since
there will be no external delivery mechanism. Now s_p_a_m
generated inside the Qwest domain is a different issue, but
one Qwest has a lot of control over.

Larry Leatherwood responds to Jeremy Grand's question
about upgrading NetWare operating systems: 

On more than one occasion I have simply taken the existing
harddrive with Netware loaded and placed it into the new 
hardware....boots up everytime and typically you might have
to load a few additional drivers like the NIC cards or scsi
controllers in order to get the volumes to mount....Also,
another neat little trick is to image the NetWare environment
onto tape and then load the image onto the new server hard
drives-this way I get to keep the old hard drives for other
projects!  I used to use a product called "snapback live" to
do this proceedure. I just see no reason to dump NetWare
just because of new hardware. 

Nakoma - As an existing CNE (4/5x) I cannot justify spending
the money for Nakoma training or for that matter upgrading my
CNE status to NetWare 6. Now that Novell is coming out with a
Linux server version (great move on their part, where else can
they go) along with certification...seems to me my time would
be better spent acquiring the Certified Linux Engineer
certification. After all, Novell is not going to strip me of my
CNE status...they are only going to take away a few perks like
CNENET access-big deal. Novell should have came up with a better
perk that a free exam pass in order to keep me on the NetWare 6
track. 

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