Quoting nils <nils at eircom.net>:
> Arcserve ... [is] locked into the windows way of naming drives C: D: etc.
> As linux has not a C: or D: in sight arcserve fallover and give up an
> error "not support in this version" in the job log.
> I was expermenting with arcserve to see if i could get it to read a
> samba share then i hit upon a idea (light bulb) if i use map share to
> drive, 'hey presto' i get a h: in my case,and arcserve works in backing
I've done this with Win9x clients, but I get a fairly disastrous performance
loss doing it. Copying 1GB+ video drops from ~4MB/s down to ~2.5. Chilling
thought: that drive mapping scheme dates from WfW3.11[1], I wonder if they're
still using the original 16-bit code, and making thunking noises down in the
network layers? If a faster processor (above statistic is from a K6/200)
improves the 2.5MB/s I'll be upset.
Anybody know more about this?
Ronan.
[1]: Motto of Windows for Workgroups - "Why crash one when you can crash six?"
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