Re: [foxboro] 51 series remote backups

Yeah, what he said ;-)

With a 2nd ethernet, you can hang a tape drive off of any station and hit 
it just as you would over nodebus, but with less smurfing.  (To be more 
specific, you can't do rmount's over the 2nd Ethernet, but 
rcp/ftp/NFS/etc. work great.)


Better yet, you can get an old PC (well, OK, a somewhat new PC) with a USB 
port, hook one of those external backup hard disks to it, and send the 
backup data over the 2nd ethernet to it.  Way faster than tape, and 
judging by our experience with helical-scan tapes (e.g., DDS), probably 
more reliable.


Or, you can pump the backup data to a file server somewhere and let your 
IT department take care of it.  We do this to comply with corporate 
directives concerning offsite storage.


Corey Clingo
BASF Corp.





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Re: How do I do remote backups (WP's especially) over the nodebus.
Don't.

Do not.

Do not ever.


Why?

The traffic generated by moving a disk image over the Nodebus is going to
interfere with critical traffic.

Use a "2nd Ethernet" to do such things.

Regards,

Alex Johnson
Invensys Systems, Inc.
10900 Equity Drive
Houston, TX 77041
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713.329.1700 (fax)
713.329.1600 (switchboard)
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Hello List,

Here's an easy one (I suspect!).

How do I do remote backups (WP's especially) over the nodebus.
The external tape drive is connected to the AW and at present I've been =
moving it to each of the other WP's (which is difficult as the equipment =
panel does not have rear doors) in order to do the backups.

I have read some of the documentation but would appreciate a =
step-by-step.

Thanks,
NB.




 
 
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