In NW 7.0 we query and record the serial number of the drive, but we don't
take any advantage of that yet. In NW 7.2 and later releases we will build
upon unique device ID so we don't depend on the device names assigned by OS.
Cheers
Patrick Terry
LEGATO Systems, Inc
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
LCNS, LEGATO Certified NetWorker® Specialist
On Thu, 22 May 2003 18:34:09 -0400, Neild, Jim <Jim.Neild AT SSHA.ON DOT CA>
wrote:
>Can anyone from Legato who is on this mailing list speak to this?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Davina Treiber [mailto:treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM]
>Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:00 PM
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] Hard Coding Device Paths under W2K SP3
>
>
>On Thu, 22 May 2003 10:05:57 -0400, Neild, Jim <Jim.Neild AT SSHA.ON DOT CA>
>wrote:
>
>>Can anyone substaniate this?
>>
>
>>
>>Don't know the answer for sure but, I hear tell that, in NW7 you can
>>specify devices by their SCSI address instead of windows logical
>>name.... Sounds good if true...
>
>This is the feature that Legato are calling "Device serialisation". I
>believe that it does in some way identify the device by SCSI address, or
>WWPN or some such, rather than by Windows device name. We all know that
>the current method is flawed because of "Plug and Pray" so this should
>be a great improvement.
>
>It is touted for NW7.x, but I don't think it went into 7.0 (correct me
>if I'm wrong). I think 7.0 got slimmed down a bit due to pressures of
>getting it out to market. We can probably expect it in 7.1 or 7.2.
>
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In NW 7.0 we query and record the serial number of the drive, but we don't
take any advantage of that yet. In NW 7.2 and later releases we will build
upon unique device ID so we don't depend on the device names assigned by OS.
Cheers
Patrick Terry
LEGATO Systems, Inc
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
LCNS, LEGATO Certified NetWorker® Specialist
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