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Page 1: Portlock Storage · PDF filePortlock Storage Connection™ Newsletter ... CeBIT once again proved to be the largest technology show in the world with about 32,000 exhibitor personnel

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April 2003

4 Portlock RecapCeBIT 2003 and Southwest Montana Career Fair

5 Under ConstructionPortlock Software Development Updates

6 Tips and TechniquesTech Support’s Most Frequently Asked Questions

8 Sales UpdateFeatured Resellers

10 Upcoming EventsBrainShare

12 Q & AQuestions and Answers from the Support News Server

14 Portlock NewsNew Portlock Mascot and More Jobs!

15 Meet the TeamNew to the Portlock Team

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Copyright 2000-2003 Portlock Software. All rights reserved. To subscribe visit us on-line at www.portlocksoftware.com.Send address changes and any other inquiries to [email protected].

This newsletter is a production of Portlock Software.Corporate Communications Manager: Amanda BadovinacMarketing Manager: Jeff HartwickPortlock Storage Connection Editing, Design, and Writing by: Brandy Sholey

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This section is a recap of events that Portlock has attended.In the next issue, watch for a recap of BrainShare 2003.

SouthwSouthwSouthwSouthwSouthwest Montana Career Fest Montana Career Fest Montana Career Fest Montana Career Fest Montana Career FairairairairairOver 60 companies attended the Southwest Montana Career Fair at the Ramada Copper King Inn, inButte, Montana. The Career Fair provided employers achance to seek potential employees and meet other com-pany representatives in the area.

Representing Portlock Software were Amanda Badovinic,Corporate Communications Manager, and Jeff Hartwick,Marketing Manager (pictured to the right). They acceptedresumes and informed the community about PortlockSoftware. They also held on-site interviews.

CeBITCeBITCeBITCeBITCeBITCeBIT once again proved to be the largest technology show in theworld with about 32,000 exhibitor personnel and 6,500 compa-nies in attendance. Estimates for total attendance were about700,000.

Portlock was part of the Novell stand in Hall 1. To give you a bettervision of the size of this extradonary event, in 1984 Hall 1 enteredthe Guiness Book of Records as the world’s largest single-storyexhibition hall. Thirty-four partners were exhibited in the Novellstand. Portlock had a high quantity of visitors from many differentnationalities. Some were inquiring about our capabilities and oth-ers just stopped to say, “great software, it saved my life.”

Many customerswere interested in the imaging functions of PortlockStorage Manager, with a few asking specific resizingquestions. For a typical demonstration, we imaged fromthe server to an FTP server. We then deleted the vol-umes on the server, rebooted to demonstrate it failed,then rebooted from a CD. This took us into PortlockStorage Manager running under DOS. We restored thedeleted volumes from the FTP server (resizing as re-quired) and rebooted. The whole process took about 5minutes.

The Portlock UK team, led by Richard Pain, representedPortlock Software at the event.

Pictured above: Andreas Munster, of Portlock UK,answering inquiries.

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This is a continuation from the article in the March issue of the Portlock Storage Connection™(www.portlocksoftware/newsletters/March03.pdf). Portlock Boot Image Manager is getting closer to completion.

Here are some screen shots to demonstrate recent progress...

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TIPS & TECHNIQUESTIPS & TECHNIQUESTIPS & TECHNIQUESTIPS & TECHNIQUESTIPS & TECHNIQUES

The following section is a summary of some of the most frequently asked questions received through thePortlock Software Technical Support office, and answered by Portlock Technical Support Engineers...

Caller has a drive that is making a noise, but it is still in working condition. Thecaller would like to clone the DOS partition, including 4 GB volumes, from onedriver to another.

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseThe tech support engineer assured the caller that the task he is trying to completewill work just fine.

Received CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallThe caller has a 10 GB drive, with 4 partitions. They want to go to a 120 GB drivewith 4 partitions and wants to know if it will clone properly.

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseYes, Portlock Storage Manager will clone the server properly.

Received CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallThe caller is operating an EMC Clarion 4700 SAN, which is connected to six servers.He wants to move the volumes and NetWare partitions over. After loading PortlockStorage Manager, he received an error that says it does not support powerpass.cdmby EMC. When moving his volumes, he wants to unload powerpass then move thevolumes then reload powerpass. Can he do this?

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseYes, he can unload powerpass. Because it is NetWare 6, he would have to imagethe volumes and then restore the image to a new location using Portlock StorageManager.

Received CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallCaller’s NetWare volume server crashed. He is trying to mount the FAT tables on thevolume but they don’t match. He is using Traditional volumes and needs to knowhow to fix this.

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseSince it was a production server, he had to restore from type. Refer to the errorrelated to Novell TID 10072310 (support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10072310.htm), which requires you to have a licensed copy of Portlock StorageManager.

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Received CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallA caller is trying to restore an image. It’s not working. They keep receiving an errorthat says NICI fatal error. Needs to know what they are doing wrong.

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseTheir SYS volume was not mounted. Due to the hardware change, they needed toedit the start-up NCF in c:\NWserver to add the new disk driver required for hisnew controller.

Received CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallReceived CallCaller has a NetWare SYS partition that has been deleted and needs to be recov-ered. They haven’t done anything on the system since it has been deleted.

TTTTTececececech Supporh Supporh Supporh Supporh Support Rt Rt Rt Rt ResponseesponseesponseesponseesponseAsked the caller to do a sector copy and then complete a recovery on the copydrive, which worked. A sector copy is just a safety measure that Portlock empha-sizes to its customers that way you work on a copy - not the original - in case some-thing goes wrong.

Portlock is dedicated to providing optimal technical support to our customers.Portlock is dedicated to providing optimal technical support to our customers.Portlock is dedicated to providing optimal technical support to our customers.Portlock is dedicated to providing optimal technical support to our customers.Portlock is dedicated to providing optimal technical support to our customers.

If you have a question regarding a Portlock product we can be reachedIf you have a question regarding a Portlock product we can be reachedIf you have a question regarding a Portlock product we can be reachedIf you have a question regarding a Portlock product we can be reachedIf you have a question regarding a Portlock product we can be reachedvia email at via email at via email at via email at via email at [email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected] or via telephone at or via telephone at or via telephone at or via telephone at or via telephone at

+1 (406) 723-5200+1 (406) 723-5200+1 (406) 723-5200+1 (406) 723-5200+1 (406) 723-5200. We also have a Support News Server that is. We also have a Support News Server that is. We also have a Support News Server that is. We also have a Support News Server that is. We also have a Support News Server that isavailable on our website at available on our website at available on our website at available on our website at available on our website at news://support-news://support-news://support-news://support-news://support-

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Asian TAT Limited was founded in 1994 with a vision to help corporations get the most out of theirIT investments. The name, TAT, stands for ‘Technologies And Tactics,’ which include a wide range ofquality tools and methodologies that they use to achieve each project objective.

They combine technical expertise and insight with their own unique consulting model — RAMPER(Reliability, Accountability, Manageability, Programmability, Expandability and Recoverability) todeliver full functional solutions to customers. Asian TAT consulting services include: Directory Infra-structure, Network Infrastructure, Network Management, Network Protection/Recovery, MessagingSolution, Database Solution, Application Development, E-Commerce Solution, Server ApplicationImplementation, and All-in-one Solution for SME.

“The quality of Portlock products are the valued tools that help us in delivering our services toclients more efficiently and effectively,” said Tim Ng, Asian TAT Representative.

He added, “Portlock Storage Manager is a powerful tool that we have been using and delivering forsystem migration and disaster recovery. We have been receiving friendly help and full-support witha fast response since the start with Portlock.”

For more information on Asian TAT, go to www.asiantat.com, or contact [email protected].

At Portlock Software, we measure our success by satisfied customers. We highly value our resellers andpartners because they are the key to our success model. Through them we reach more people, and earn morecustomer satisfaction. Each month, we are going to feature some of our top resellers and partners. This month

we are featuring Asian TAT and Software House International. Both are proven successful companies that assistPortlock Software in getting our products in the market.

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Software House International (SHI) is a global procurement out-sourcing company that is one of thetop resellers of Portlock Software products. They offer a full menu of services, and carry authoriza-tions as an IBM Business Partner, a Lotus Notes Premium VAR, a Microsoft Certified Partner and aNovell Gold Reseller, among others.

As a new organization established in 1989, SHI completed less than $1 million in sales. Sales for2003 are expected to exceed $2 billion. An important highlight of this dramatic growth is that it hasall been generated internally, with no acquisitions or mergers. The success of SHI has stemmedfrom outstanding customer support through dedicated account teams, constant development ofprocurement and Internet solutions, strong partnerships with top manufacturers and a company-wide determination to be #1.

Their global headquarters is located in Somerset, New Jersey. Serving public and private sectormarkets, SHI’s sales force is located throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

For more information on SHI, go to www.shi.com, or contact Melissa Powell at [email protected].

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Novell BrainShare 2003...Novell BrainShare 2003...Novell BrainShare 2003...Novell BrainShare 2003...Novell BrainShare 2003...Portlock Software will be exhibiting in the NetWare Partner Pavilion, NSS Booth, and in the NetSolutions Lab at BrainShare 2003. The event will take place April 13 - 18 in Salt Lake City, Utah.BrainShare brings the top minds in the IT industry together.

The following are some highlighted areas that will be offered at the conference: a Developer Den,Hands-On Technology (HOT) Labs, a Learning Zone if you want to study up on Novell course materi-als or if you’re looking for some hands-on experience with Novell software, a Merchandise Collec-tion, One Net Solutions Lab, a Pro-grams Pavilion, SysOps atBrainShare, a Testing Center, and aTraining Depot (bookstore).

This year Novell will be unveiling fourcompletely new solution sets in their60,000 square foot Net SolutionsLab and they will be offering morethan 250 training sessions.

Portlock will be displaying new de-velopments and products. Tech Sup-port will be on-hand to assist introubleshooting and support.

Representing Portlock will be:

John J. Hanley - President/CEOJammie Walker - Vice PresidentJeff Hartwick - Marketing ManagerLeonard Holling - EngineerLacie Mullaney - Channel ManagerJackie Farren - Sales Manager

For more information on BrainShare2003, check out www.novell.com/brainshare/.

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Portlock’s Research and Development teams have been focused on new product enhancements. One majordevelopment, Portlock Deployment Console, is the deployment solution for NetWare. The Portlock Deployment

Console offers the ability to deploy and manage an entire server environment from one console with the drag anddrop feature. The following pictures are blade servers that Portlock has been testing on. For more information on

these latest developments, watch www.portlocksoftware.com.

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Q & AQ & AQ & AQ & AQ & A

The following sections are questions and answers that were posted to the Portlock Support News Serveravailable at news://support-forums.portlocksoftware.com/portlock.support.storage-manager.

My goal was to create recovery options for NetWare servers in a test environment. Ihad hoped to make modifications/upgrades/installs to a server, and then restorethe box from a former image. My first test generated NICI fatal errors. Does anyoneknow if this product will work to restore a sys volume, eDirectory if a single server, orcertificate server?

You can certainly use this product as part of a DRP solution. We have done it in manyscenarios, most of them in a multi-server tree environment. Since it is an image/restoreprocedure, all information is preserved (including eDir, NICI, CA, etc.). If you are restor-ing/cloning to a different hardware platform, you will only need to adjust driver (NIC,SCSI) settings (vendor, slot, irq, whichever applies), and it is known these things arevery easy and fast on a NetWare box. It is fast, reliable, works great, and is our favoriteNetWare upgrade method.

- Answered by another user of the Portlock Support News Server

Next Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning, we hope to intra-server copy of a 123MB NSS pool/partition that has about 80 MB of data, and another 15 MB NetWarepartition that’s full to another set of four 72 GB 15K RPM drives (two logical vol-umes) that will replace five 36 GB 10K RPM drives. Both of the drive sets are in thesame 1 GB/sec SAN. The server is a Pentium 4 1.4 Ghz with 1.5 GB of RAM. Whatkind of speed should I expect? Remember, I am not going across the LAN, becausethis is intra-server. My guess is at least 10 GB per hour.

One of our customers has reported an upgrade that was done on a Compaq ML370server. The migration was from a Compaq SMART 5300-128 Controller with 6 x 36 GBRAID5 to Compaq SMART 5300-256 Controller with 5 x 72 GB drives RAID5 and thevolume copy (while NetWare was running) was just over 2 hours. Both of the control-lers were in the server, so it was a disk-to-disk copy under NetWare 5.1.

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I am running Portlock Storage Manager v.3.11 on NW5 SP6a 1 disk 3 partitions:diagnostic partition 31 MB, DOS start-up 94 MB, NW386 (traditional) 17 GB 2 vol-umes in Netware partition. For this server to be upgraded to NW6, the DOS partitionneeds to be over 100 MB. I managed to resize (shrink) both volumes and then theNW partition by 120MB, but in resizing the partition I had no access to the Startingand Ending positions - just Size or Free Space. The partition is smaller now, but itneeds to be at the end of the disk to make room for a larger DOS partition! Am Imissing something here?

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Here is a method that you could use to increase the size of your DOSpartition:

1. Make an image of the disk using Portlock Storage Manager of the server. This ispurely for safety.

2. Attach an IDE drive to the server and then copy the DOS partition and the otherpartition on the drive over to the IDE drive using the Partition Copy commands withPortlock Storage Manager. During the copy process you can resize the DOS volume tothe size that you require.

3. Once this is finished you can delete the DOS partition and the other NetWarepartition from the original drive (hence the suggestion of the image in step 1 forsafety should the “wrong” thing be deleted).

4. Now copy back the DOS partition at its increased size.

5. Copy back the NetWare partition.

6. Remove the IDE drive and boot up your server.

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JOBS! JOBS! AND MORE JOBS!...JOBS! JOBS! AND MORE JOBS!...JOBS! JOBS! AND MORE JOBS!...JOBS! JOBS! AND MORE JOBS!...JOBS! JOBS! AND MORE JOBS!...We are looking for innovative minds to join the Portlock team. If you are highly motivated and seeka job in a fast-paced industry, you may be a perfect match to the type of individuals we are seeking.

We have positions open in several fields, including Sales, Marketing, Software Development,Sales, Marketing, Software Development,Sales, Marketing, Software Development,Sales, Marketing, Software Development,Sales, Marketing, Software Development,TTTTTececececechnical Supporhnical Supporhnical Supporhnical Supporhnical Support, Graphic Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Artististististist, Tt, Tt, Tt, Tt, Tececececechnical Whnical Whnical Whnical Whnical Writingritingritingritingriting and WWWWWeb Siteb Siteb Siteb Siteb Site Dee Dee Dee Dee Devvvvvelopmentelopmentelopmentelopmentelopment. If youare interested in working for Portlock Software, send a resume, cover letter, salary requirements andreferences to:

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New Portlock Mascot...New Portlock Mascot...New Portlock Mascot...New Portlock Mascot...New Portlock Mascot...Portlock has a new greeter at our Corporate Headquarters. He makes his presence known as soon asthe elevator door opens. He is known to mimic or whistle at visitors and wandering Portlock employ-ees. He likes to cuddle on your shoulder and is very friendly and loving. Oh, did we mention he is abird?

Chip, who is a Jandy Conurd bird, originated from NorthEastern Brazil. He is vibrantly colored and isknown to have an engaging personality. Whenever someone comes near his cage, he is instantlyalert and ready to socialize. Share with him an apple or grape (his favorite snack) and you’ve madea new friend.

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MEET THE TEAMMEET THE TEAMMEET THE TEAMMEET THE TEAMMEET THE TEAM

The Portlock Software Team is dedicated to bringing customers optimal service. They strive to assure 100%customer satisfaction. Meet the newest members of our Secretarial and Support teams...

Al Ciallella has joined the Software Development team atPortlock Software. He is our newest Software Developer/Engineer.

Al comes to Portlock with many years of experience inengineering and computer consulting. He first began hiscareer as a Petroleum Engineer in California and Louisi-ana. There he discovered a great fascination in comput-ers. He decided to pursue his interest and earned a Mas-ters Degree in Computer Science from the University ofLouisiana in 1992.

Upon graduation, he began his career as a Computer Consultant traveling through Louisiana andUtah.

He calls Anaconda, Montana home now, and Portlock Software his new adventure. “It’s great towork in such a high energy place developing such a high quality of product,” added Al.

Vickie Edgar is the Sales Support Administrator, and the newest member ofthe Portlock Secretarial team.

She was discovered at the Southwest Montana Career Fair that Portlockattended. Vickie moved to Butte from Ohio to start a life in the place herfamily was from. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her sonand grandchildren.

At Portlock, Vickie assists the Sales team in tracking sales, invoicing, filing,and keeping the department updated. “Everyone has made me feel right athome, and really welcomed me in. I can’t wait to begin this journey atPortlock,” she commented.

Brenda Schultz is Portlock’s Evening Receptionist. Her role is to greet call-ers and assist other departments in various tasks.

A Butte native, Brenda previously worked at Wal-Mart. She enjoys spendingtime with her two children, Taylor and Ryan, and her husband, Terry. Shecommented that the best thing about Portlock so far is “the people, every-one is so nice and helpful.”

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