Re: [foxboro] RE : RE : Barriers to migration to Windows

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. =




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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:
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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. ....................
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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.
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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.=

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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?

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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.
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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. ......................
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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?

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Terry


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