Knowledgebase
19Filesystem related
13Using tape drives
45Tips and tricks
9Using disk drives
8Command line interface (CLI)
35Installation and Configuration
9Volume handling
8Job handling
4Supported Hardware
7Index related
6Backup Strategies
4Supported 3rd party products
6PresSTORE White Papers
87Troubleshooting
15How Stuff Works
8Known compatibility problems
4Pure
In order to setup a standby server for high availability,
please check the article in our blog:
how-to-set-up-a-cold-standby-p5-server
[https://blog.archiware.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-cold-standby-p5-server/]
Key words:
Cold standby, spare server, hi...
During the autodetection of drives and changers, it sometimes happens that the drives are mapped in a wrong order, especially when configuring Fiber-Channel devices. The media changer accesses drives by their physical position, whereas PresSTORE "sees"...
ARCHIWARE P5 ARCHIVE: INSTALLING IMAGEMAGICK & FFMPEG ON MACOS WITH
HOMEBREW
[HTTP://NEWS.JPY.COM/KBASE/2018/1/8/ARCHIWARE-P5-ARCHIVE-INSTALLING-IMAGEMAGICK-FFMPEG-ON-MACOS-WITH-HOMEBREW]
Archiware P5 Archive [http://p5.archiware.com/products/p5-archi...
Question:
I'm trying to setup a Linux machine as my B2Go server, but I'm
getting the following error message: "The Data Storage Directory is
not supported."
Answer:
On Linux, please enable the user_xattr mount option for the ext3/4
filesystem....
Q: I installed the required 32-bit libraries, but my P5 still won't
not launch. What's going on?
A: For a list of the required 32-bit libraries for CentOS 6.4, please
see here:
http://portal.archiware.com/support/index.php?/default_import/Knowled...
Archiving or saving files may require some user or site-specific
additional preparation steps.
For example:
* A database server may have to be told to flush the database files
* A notification may need to be send to a user to close all open
files
...
PresSTORE application server requires periodical restarts in order to
do some resource cleanup tasks. The server restart is performed at
predefined intervals and is activated only if there are no users
logged-in and no jobs running. Presstore checks for ...
We are often asked how PresSTORE controls whether new tapes are used in the next full backup or whether old tapes are overwritten and reused. Here is a brief description: This depends on two settings and on the state of the volumes. Those settings are...
When connecting to the PresSTORE user interface, a login is required.
The validation of username and password, (the authentication) is not
done by PresSTORE itself but passed on to the operating system. This
implies that usernames and passwords are accept...
In order to save away the data of a file, this file has to be opened.
All of the operating systems allow files to be opened, read and
written simultaneously from different programs. This practice is
however more common on Darwin, Linux and Unix, than on a...
Uninstall is pretty easy.
On Mac/Linux, launch terminal application and type:
sudo /usr/local/aw/stop-server
sudo sh /usr/local/aw/uninstall.sh
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/aw
You need to be adminstrator-user and supply your
password when "sudo" ask you...
!!! REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF YOUR P3 OR P4 INSTALLATION
FOLDER BEFORE YOU BEGIN !!!
In preparation for the various upgrades, it is also highly recommended
to read through the various upgrade FAQs.:
http://www.archiware.com/upgrade-faq
[http:...
Starting with V6 P5 supports SSL for P5 Web GUI connections only. We
do NOT (yet) support SSL for client/b2go connections.
We provide our own self-signed certificate in order to enable SSL
connections, but in many cases this may be unacceptable.
The self...
An auto-update from, say, version 3.x to 4.x would not work because
the two machines wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. If
the server and the client are running different versions of Presstore
4.x that are deemed compatible, then auto-upd...
In some cases the PresSTORE installation fails on Windows 7 x64 systems with the following symptoms: - The installation starts a command window that remains for 5 minutes - Subsequently the PresSTORE Server Manager utility shows up and shows the PresSTO...
How to get 3.0 license/activation codes?
If you have signed the SUA (software update agreement) then you can
freely install the 3.0.. Also, if you purchased the software after
December 3rd 2007, you are also entitled to free 3.0 update. In this
case jus...
The local administrator account in Windows 2008 is hidden. In case
you're having problems using Presstore on a Windows 2008 machine with
Active Directory domain accounts, try to enable the Local
Administrator account and use that one instead. Please refer...
Sometimes, it is difficult to recognize why SCSI drives are not
recognized by MAC`s. To avoid confusion, please follow these steps
when troubleshooting the PresSTORE jukebox configuration:
* In case the jukebox was already configured before, clear the
...
When creating backups, PresSTORE handles in background so called
backup index databases automatically. In these databases PresSTORE
keeps the information which file is stored on which tape.
These index databases may consume a lot of disk space: as a ...
Deploying B2GO is pretty straightforward:
Use ARD to push the workstation installer package to all your Macs.
Then simply on each workstation execute the following Unix command:
/usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -c Server configure host port user pass
[templ...
JPY has written a very good article about how to move Presstore from
one Mac to another:
http://news.jpy.com/kbase/support-articles/2015/9/7/migrate-presstore-from-old-mac-to-new
[http://news.jpy.com/kbase/support-articles/2015/9/7/migrate-presstore-fro...
Imagine a tape that has only 3 files on it. All three were backed up
30 days ago. One file has since been deleted from the server. One file
was changed two weeks ago and so an updated version was saved to
another tape that is less than 30 days old. This l...
In order to create a backup of a database, either the database must be
brought down or a dump must be saved in order to get a consistent
state of the database in the backup.
When saving an Oracle database under Windows, it is also possible to
make use of...
Archiware P5 will not run in parallel with other backup software
installed on the same server. Any such setup ist unsupported.
The reason being that other backup software may lock the tape
device(s), which would prevent Archiware P5 from controlling tho...
PLEASE NOTE: THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR THE 64-BIT VERSION OF UBUNTU
12.04. AS UBUNTU EVOLVES, THESE INSTRUCTIONS MAY OR MAY NOT WORK WITH
OTHER UBUNTU RELEASES.
Customer installed 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04, downloaded and
installed P4/P5 softw...
If PresSTORE was installed on a Mac OS X prior to an update to OS X
10.6, an error may arise ("bad user credentials") while logging in,
resulting from an invalid PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)
configuration file for PresSTORE.
To overcome this, p...
This article describes the IP network requirements to set up a
connection between a P5 server and a client.
On most supported platforms, P5 sets up a TCP/IP connection from the
server to the clients over port 8000. In order to achieve that, the
followin...
When installing a PresSTORE client, there are no differences to the server installation. The PresSTORE client software is absolutely identical to the PresSTORE server. Each PresSTORE installation can be used as client. There is nothing that needs to be se...
To allow some degree of customization of file handling in PresSTORE,
there is an option to assign several user-defined callbacks in the
form of scripts (or application programs) at some predefined points in
the PresSTORE filesystem abstraction driver.
A...
Archiware support may advise you to change certain server-wide
options. To do so,
please change to the PresSTORE installation directory (default is
/usr/local/aw), edit the CONF/LEXXSRV.PORT (P3 & P4) file or
CONFIG/LEXXSRV.PORT (P5) file (port is the T...
Starting with Version 4.1, PresSTORE relies on Linux and Solaris
Systems on the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
Because of that, the locale is set in the script start-server in the
PresSTORE folder.
This setting influences PresSTORE only, this is not a server-wide...
To restart the running P5 instance on the Unix-like host, perform the
following command as privileged user:
/usr/local/aw/stop-server
/usr/local/aw/start-server
You can also start the software with some other user by doing:
/usr/local/aw/start-server ...
You may want to complete a migration of your Archiware installation
for many reasons. When migrating from one Mac host to another, the
process isn’t complicated, but should be completed cautiously. This
guide describes how to complete this migration and r...
PresSTORE does not keep its own user database, but uses the existing
accounts of the hosting machine.
For some users, PresSTORE allows full administrative access by
default, depending on the operating system:
* On Windows for all members of the Admin...
In PresSTORE, the maintenance period is shown in the license
information.
Same as all other license info, it is coded in the license key and is
not updated automatically. So the maintenance expiration date remains
unchanged as long as no new license...
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