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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Share NTFS for Backups Post 302790913 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 7th of April 2013 09:11:50 AM
Old 04-07-2013
If you are using the lun as a staging area for later backup to tape, fine. Or as short term backup. Disk as a permanent longterm "backup of official record" like for payroll data is a bad idea. Disk is not forever, tape is closer to forever.

Most SAN companies give you a warranty, and then a purchasable warranty for a longer period of time. They do that because they know that eventually every part on the SAN controller & trays will have to be replaced. And they stop making parts. So they can no longer replace them. We have SAN that went out of warranty and we are using another headless SAN to cannibalize for parts until the new one arrives. It is just temp storage.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

hpfc

hpfc(7D)							      Devices								  hpfc(7D)

NAME

       hpfc - Agilent fibre channel host bus adapter

SYNOPSIS

       PCI   pci103c

DESCRIPTION

       The hpfc fibre channel host bus adapter is a SCSA compliant nexus driver that supports all Agilent fibre channel host bus adapters, includ-
       ing the HHBA5100x, HHBA5101x, and HHBA5121x models. Agilent host bus adapters support the fibre channel protocol on private  fibre  channel
       arbitrated loops and fabrics. The driver supports up to ten host bus adapters, with a maximum of 125 fibre channel devices on each host bus
       adapter. The hpfc driver supports a maximum of 256 LUNs per target.

       The hpfc driver does not support the BIOS Int 13 feature, which enables the booting of an operating system. As a  result,  you  should  not
       install an operating system on devices attached to the hpfc driver.

CONFIGURATION

       The hpfc driver attempts to configure itself using the information in the /kernel/drv/hpfc.conf configuration file.

       By default, the driver supports only LUN 0 for each target device. To add multiple LUN support, modify the /kernel/drv/sd.conf file.

       Before  upgrading the hpfc driver, backup the sd.conf file to save customized LUN settings and then use pkgrm(1M) to remove the old version
       of the driver.

       The host bus adapter port is initialized to FL_Port when connected to a fabric switch. To change it  to	F_Port,  add  the  init_as_nport=1
       entry to the hpfc.conf file and reboot the system.

       To  conserve system resources, at least one disk drive must be attached to the hpfc driver. If no devices are attached, the driver will not
       load.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/hpfc 	       32-bit ELF kernel module

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/hpfc        64-bit ELF kernel module

       /kernel/drv/hpfc.conf	       Driver configuration file

       /kernel/drv/sd.conf	       SCSI disk configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86, SPARC		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       luxadm(1M), pkgrm(1M), prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), ses(7D), ssd(7D)

       ANSI X3.272-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL),

       ANSI X3.269-1996, Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP),

       ANSI X3.270-1996, SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM),

       Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA)

SunOS 5.10							    10 Oct 2000 							  hpfc(7D)
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