Actually, that's not exactly true. In other OS's persistent binding will
lock the device to a drive, but under Windows and it's dynamic device
system, it won't. It is necessary to have persistent binding, but not
sufficient. As long as your drives aren't powered up differently, or
fail, they will have the same device name, however, if anything changes,
your drives can be renumbered even with FC or SCSI persistent binding.
The fix is the hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873337/ and a
registry change.
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Greggs, Dana
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:33 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Anyone installed 7.4SP1 on Windows yet?
If your drive assignments are changing on reboot it's because you
haven't enabled "persistent binding". It must be configured not just on
your adapter but also on the Library's SCSI or FC interface. We have 4
Windows 2003 Networker Servers (we have been running Networker on them
from NT, 2000 to 2003) all with FC attached libraries. I configured
persistent binding on the adapters and on the Library and have not had
any issues since doing so.
Dana
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:29 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone installed 7.4SP1 on Windows yet?
> Ok. I am fairly new to networker with a fresh 7.4 install that seems
to
> be running fairly well overall, and from lurking on this list-serv,
and
> my ongoing (small, yet annoying) issues with "Support" on this
version,
> I get the impression people are avoiding 7.4 altogether like a plague.
>
> Are you essentially saying that EMC actually released a new
> version/update that does not even work, or rather they could not even
> get to work/upgrade themselves? That is utterly crazy and sad!?
>
> Any other thoughts from anyone out there running 7.4 on win32? We are
> finding bugs that are so simple and ridiculous (and some have been
told
> are patched, but yet are still not with hotfixes?) , that we are often
> feeling like we are the only site on earth even running this thing?
The 7.4 server on Win2003 mostly works (outside of the well-known
truncation of emails). Unfortunately, the hotfix for this would crash my
server, whenever a SQL client (5.0 or 5.1) finished and tried to send an
email. Hence my extreme reluctance to even try SP1 - I know I can at
least
live with truncated emails, because my server won't crash.
I've also been bitten by the Windows OS bug, that apparently changes
SCSI
bindings randomly on reboot, so that sometimes my tapes are \\tape0-3,
and
sometimes it's \\tape0, \\tape1, \\tape4, \\tape5 (in my case, I have
unconfigured tape drives in a new library, that is unconfigured, because
I
don't yet have the license. And NW is giving \\tape2, \\tape3 on that
library.
The 5.1 client constantly indicates that it failed, even though the log
on
the client indicates otherwise. I tried a hotfix from EMC support, and
it
did nothing to correct this issue.
The 7.4 clients haven't given me any trouble.
So no, you're not the only site on earth. All my NetWorker servers and
clients are Windows (2000 or 2003). Like you, I am new to NetWorker
(only
4 months). And these experiences don't generate overwhelming confidence
in
the product to me ...
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