Re: [foxboro] RE : RE : RE : Barriers to migration to Windows
- From: "Kevin Fitzgerrell" <fitzgerrell@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:31:46 +0900
Ed,
Thanks for the review! This does sound like a significant improvement
over previous solutions.
My comment that the backup demo did not look impressive was probably a
poor choice of words. What I meant was that there was not much to see
- it just worked. The underlying functionality is impressive.
Cheers,
Kevin FitzGerrell
On 9/2/07, Larsen, Ed <ed.larsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kevin and all,
>
> I have been using a Symantec product for at least 2 years to backup
> /restore AW/WP70's with great success. We use Symantec Live State
> Recovery. The package presented at User's Group is basically a newer
> version.
>
> We have a 2nd Ethernet network that connects all 100+ AW/WP70's in three
> plant sites that are 5 miles from end to end. All the boxes
> automatically backup once a week to a central server. This Server is a
> Windows 2003 server with 2TB of Raid5 storage. It is also used as a
> Print Server and a repository for McAfee updates. We have restored boxes
> from Dell 340 - Dell 390 with no major issues. We have restored to the
> same box and we have restored to a new box of the same hardware. No
> difference. On the 380 and 390 we have to load the drivers during boot
> of the Restore CD using the F6 process. =
>
>
> There is an issue on a V8 Mesh system. If a V8 Mesh AW/WP70 is restored
> toi different hardware, it will not work properly on the Mesh because of
> the different Mac Addresses of the Fiber NICS. It is easily corrected.
> Either move the NICS form the old box, or use HH1104 to edit the
> registry. If restored to the same hardware, no issues.
>
> We have probably restored close to 100 times with no real issues other
> than mentioned above. Almost all of the restoration is for
> troubleshooting in a testbed or upgrade work.
>
> A typical AW70 takes about 15-20 minutes for the backup to run. A WP
> takes about 6 minutes. One of our historian boxes takes close to an
> hour. These are HOT backups. The Operator has no clue it is backing up.
> We restore over the network after booting the CD and setting IP address
> on the box to be restored.
>
> I believe the software is impressive, because I well remember the NT
> days of wrestling a box away from an operator to back it up and praying
> it would work after a restore and instead of weekly backups, I was lucky
> to get it backed 2-4 times a year. =
>
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
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