I too have used Ghost, Acronis and other imaging software to quickly backup= / restore Win boxes, the issue for me is that none of these methods is sup= ported or supplied by Foxboro. The reliable UNIX backup / restore is a buil= t in, supported feature on Foxboro AW's and WP's. = -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On= Behalf Of Doucet, Terrence Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:29 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] RE : RE : Barriers to migration to Windows Please clarify these comments: = 1) You can easily do tape backup/restore of the Solaris boxes. Windows it's fairly straightforward to do backups but full restores are not= possible - need to re-install Windows, re-install I/A, re-commit and then = restore custom files. .................... = I have used Ghost many times to dump an AW70 hard drive to a "spare" drive = and have booted the AW70 from both drives to ensure that the back up is wor= king correctly. It is very fast. I think about three minutes. We build th= e AW70 once only. We do not have to re-install anything. Although Ghost ca= n use many other types of media, we felt that a spare hard drive could get = the computer back faster than any other media. = The two hard drives are identical. I suspect that if the computer died and= we had to get another DELL from Foxboro which does not match the dead comp= uter, then we might have to go through the whole build and perhaps take a d= ay to get it working. You are correct in that it is not part of the Foxboro= offering and therefore not documented by standard Foxboro edoc. But if yo= u look at the Ghost cost per license, it is very low and very easy to use.= = = It's interesting that you say that you can buy the Windows header/library f= iles for ICCAPI, Object Manager and FoxAPI. I was told flatly that these w= ere not available. Who did you talk to? = I was under the impression that the only library that was not available in = the Windows world was Object Manager. The work around was to use FoxAPI or = AIMAPI. On AW70 we have many custom C programs that use AIMAPI to access th= e IA data. = = = 3) All Solaris workstations are servers. It is easy to open a remote DM/FV= from any workstation to any other workstation. Telnet, ftp, rmount, rcp, = rlogin, rsh, nfs all just work. SSH can be made to work. XP boxes are not really servers. FTP works pretty well. Telnet under the = Nutcracker suite has some issues. ...................... = There are two telnet applications available to be activated on the 70 Serie= s, Exceed's version and the WinXP (under Services). The Exceed applicatio= n is pretty old and does not seem to perform as well as the WinXP service. = Which are you using? = = Terry = -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat = = _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Sys= tems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your o= wn risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html = foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave = Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachment(s) = to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) and = may contain confidential, privileged or proprietary information. If you are= not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, delete a= ll copies of this message and any attachment(s). Any other use of the E-Mai= l by you is prohibited. _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave