File Servers

NAS Recommendations?
I have one script that runs every 15 minutes on the 2 backup servers. This script does a differential rsync on the main file server to see if any new files were added. This rsync does not delete anything. This means, I’ve created an ...

Veritas Backup Exec 11d Win SBS Agent for win sys inc remote agent ...
The Continuous Protection Agent functionality enables continuous disk-based data protection for remote file servers with LAN or WAN connectivity to the Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server. Continuous disk-based protection ...

Sad Bits from Microsoft
Remember reading about Microsoft Home Server? This product supposedly brings the value of a file service, such as a safe place to store and share files, to the home user. I wasn’t thrilled about the idea of a home file server from ...

IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module Released
The downside of using a progressive video download approach, though, is that web-servers are by default designed to download files as fast as possible. So when a user clicks to watch a video on your site, your web-server will attempt to ...

Joomla 1.5 Directory Status: Writeable
Not like version 1.0, where the file permission issue was fixed by turning Safe Mode off. Now, in Joomla 1.5, file access is controlled entirely by FTP and file permission settings on the web server.

Open Question: Describe the IT-supported customer-related ...
Basically I am looking for a file server to handle about 1500 customer files with room to expand about 10% /yr, with security features for confidential data. Suppose this is for a vehicle dealership with 3 divisions. ...

Running Your Own Server
I then downloaded a program called hfs.exe (HTTP File Server – Google for it) which is a small program that doesn’t even need installing which will set up a http server on your machine. All okay and all, but it just had that amateur ...

The Difficulty in Creating the Easy Home Network
I serve audio files using -- gasp -- Samba and DAAP. I added mt-daapd (now Firefly Media Server) to my setup a couple of years ago, and it works transparently with Rhythmbox. There are no hiccoughs. No errors. Nothing. ...

Sun Network Information System
NIS is used on Unix networks to keep important system files, such as the password file, synchronized among a group of servers. Remember that on Unix systems, each server has a password file, a user group file, and other important files ...

Scaling is for nerds?
The truth is that almost all web ventures never become big enough to even need a separate database server, let alone a farm of memcached servers, file servers, and enough computing power to plan a trip to Orion. ...