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We've just done that and are migrating everyone over to OWA soon. However to the problem at hand. How are they getting to EasySnail? Do they go directly (mail.school.lea.sch.uk) or from a shortcut/favourite that they created in another session? I only get that message when I use the address bar dropdown list to get the Easymail 'cos I can't be bothered to type it in properly. HBJB

LOL :) the last one. For some reason I just like the tune. (Not strictly my taste since the last concerts I went to were Nightwish / Pain / MM / Iron Maiden etc) Nice find though LB. HBJB

Me too please. HBJB

Similar indeed. I remember 'How' (before the Dinage era) and 'Out of Town' (anyone know where I can get the theme tune from?) HBJB

I know exactly what you mean and it was one of the first things I checked. In the media set I'm using I have 0 hours for overwrite protection and 'Infinite - allow append' setup. The backup job is set to use the correct (and only) media set. I've double checked this against my other 11d jobs on two other servers and they're setup identically. I've ordered a new cable in case that is actually the issue after all. Thanks for your input. HBJB

I think it's possible with ftp (SIMS do a similar thing on their ftp setup), but I suspect Michael is correct. HBJB

I've just looked at the lead - all seems well but you never can tell can you? Also the autoloader has two ports on the back but I only have one on the server - is this correct? HBJB

Interesting. I don't have a spare lead right now. I suppose it could be this despite everything being brand new. Gaaahhh. BTW - NTBackup didn't detect the drive at all so no joy there. Cheers HBJB

I'm off to see if NT Backup can write to it. Footnote: the backup fails after seemingly backing up between 3,000,000 and 9,000,000 bytes (not sure if that's relevant or not). HBJB

LTO3. All new and all do the same thing as far as I can tell. Cheers, HBJB

Did you ever set your autoloader up? Did it work? I'm having a spot of bother with mine (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader). See here. HBJB

Solved (but can't edit the title of this thread). OK, I'm not sure if this should be in Hardware or Software but here goes. We recently purchased a new server (HP ML370 GS twin Xeon, X64, 4GB RAM, RAID 5 etc.) and along with it a new HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader. All is setup OK and server and Autoloader are fine and dandy. The only issue is that I can't backup anything! Server has 2003 SP2 x64 OS (will be used as Exchange 2007 server) and we're using Backup Exec 11d build 7170 x64 (latest version) and the driver pack for v7170. Autoloader has the latest firmware (1.80/1.80n) and the drive itself is on the latest firmware (D22W). SCSI IDs are being picked up OK (ID4 LUN1) and we have a compatible SCSI setup for this autoloader. When I run a backup job I get a fail with error 'E00084ED - A hardware error occurred' and the tape is marked as 'Not appendable (End marker unreadable)'. An erase of the tape fixes this until the next time I run the job. None of the help from Symantec fixes anything and I'm stumped with thousands of pounds of kit not working. Can anyone help? I'd be eternally grateful. Cheers HBJB

I stand corrected. Our latest bill is £15k ish. HBJB

We've had a few Sanyo projectors that went dim then after a bit spectacularly blew up the lamp sending dust and crap everywhere. Beware - change that lamp ASAP! HBJB

Yep - that's correct. The problem we had was that one or more of them arrived in plain jiffy bags addressed to the Bursar so they were almost opened by mistake. Make sure they mark the outside so that you know who they're from. HBJB

That's what we usually do but we've just had to go to tender for some pretty serious Virtual Reality kit and you need to select your suppliers (bearing in mind that over a certain figure means you have to go to European tender), invite them to tender, give a brief of what you expect and a date they should reply by. When they come in they must not be opened immediately and must be kept in the safe and all opened at the same time. Hope this helps a bit. HBJB

I have this one but I was recently pointed to a download of Tesbase by one of our English teachers. @russdev - why? HBJB

If they're like the little angels we have then I can safely tell you that it will be happening all the time. Things to look for are monitors turned at a funky angle so as to hide their activity, multiple browser windows in the task bar (if web based email) and the fact that they're breathing . HBJB

My manual backup of SIMS goes something like this: REM *** Backs up the SIMS Databases *** DBATTACH /DATABASE=sims /backup /auto /user=******** /password=************** /SERVER=sims\sims_db REM *** Copies the Docstorage Folder *** REM *** Setdate creates a folder structure with the current date as the folder name setdate.exe yyyymmdd call setinto.bat date xcopy d:\sims\sims\docstorage\*.* "D:\Sims\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\Docstorage\%date%\" /e /y xcopy d:\sims\sims\fmssql\db\sims.db "D:\Sims\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\FMS\DB\%date%\" /y xcopy d:\sims\sims\fmssql\db\sims.log "D:\Sims\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\FMS\DB\%date%\" /y xcopy d:\sims\sims\fmssql\db2\sims.db "D:\Sims\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\FMS\DB2\%date%\" /y xcopy d:\sims\sims\fmssql\db2\sims.log "D:\Sims\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\FMS\DB2\%date%\" /y del setinto.bat ... and uses setdate .exe to set the variables. Can't remember where I got setdate from now so I can't credit it. Hope this helps HBJB setdate.zip

I think we pay about 6K ish. Core products + FMS, LM, NOVAT, Assesment and others that I can't remember. Single site since we're one of two schools in the LA that use SIMS. HBJB

Wouldn't it be a bit iffy to have all the machine shutdown when the teacher's PC closes? What if they decide to to reboot it during a lesson? HBJB

I think I had one of those !! It had a caddy to put the CD in and was constantly getting jammed. Those were the days. HBJB

... also Crimson Editor HBJB

Madness !! HBJB

Agreed. Got mine a few weeks back. HBJB