We currently use Professional edition for the snapshot functionality. However this presents a problem with "offline" restoration of the IBVs. Imagine the scenario, you have a bunch of live servers running from a single StarWind target, these are backed up to a backup server periodically. A...

Thought I'd put something back into the forum, and share my latest sucess!! Basically we have a number of Dell SC1425's we use as diskless machines booting from Starwind. We have recently bought a second "SAN" machine to give us some failover capability, so we were looking at how this fitt...

Hi do you have any documentation as to how to best backup servers running from starwind? In our environment we have a number of servers, all booting from IBvolumes using emboot. Currently we are using NTBackup on each of the servers to backup system state, onto a dedicated backup server with it's ow...

Is this possible? If so how do I do it.

Also I notice version 3.2 is out I am currently running 3.1

Are there any cost implications of going from 3.1 to 3.2? The particular item of interest to me is the replication.


Regards

Simon

(or maybe I'm missing something :oops: ) What would be really nice is a view on a starwind server that reports the space used vs the allocated size of an IBvolume. The "problem" is that I need to flick between windows explorer and starwind to be able to get a "x of y" type view. ...

Thanks for your speedy reply. The functionality sounds good.

I am currently evaluating StarWind 3.0 build 20060306, is this functionality in this release?

Regards

Simon

Anton, I am interested in the following scenario: - Primary StarWind target in our offices serving 4 diskless machines. - Secondary StarWind target in remote location connected over a slow link (512 SDSL) The concept isn't to have a guaranteed realtime mirror of the primary target. Just a consistent...