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J_H_Is_gone
15 years agoLevel 6
I have had the privilege, no the pleasure, no the horror of doing both.
We started with a windows master and 2 windows media, and 1 UNIX media ( for some strange reason management seem to think that the UNIX (aix) servers had to be backed up by a UNIX media server (also aix).
We were always fighting the Windows media servers and the master. Rebooted them a lot.
When we upgraded to 6.x we went to an aix master/media and 1 aix media ( also 2 windows san media servers just because they were big).
I now have very few issues, only reboot when I upgrade (not needed just do it because).
with the master being UNIX even the two san media servers give me little problems.
But help me if I have to change a tape drive - Unix cool - windows have given me a little fight a couple of times.
windows master - you cannot push to UNIX clients from the console
Unix master - you can push to UNIX clients from the console, and push to windows clients from from install media (except for the new 2008 servers - for some reason that does not work) Which means I have all my UNIX servers upgraded in about 15 minutes with out have to log into them.
I feel I don't work as hard has I use to with the aix master. Not to say I don't have problems some times, but it just seems to be easier. No registry to mess with, the bp.conf file is on disk and you can look at and and change it easy.
(I should also admit I am a UNIX admin - that learned a lot about windows when we had that master)
We started with a windows master and 2 windows media, and 1 UNIX media ( for some strange reason management seem to think that the UNIX (aix) servers had to be backed up by a UNIX media server (also aix).
We were always fighting the Windows media servers and the master. Rebooted them a lot.
When we upgraded to 6.x we went to an aix master/media and 1 aix media ( also 2 windows san media servers just because they were big).
I now have very few issues, only reboot when I upgrade (not needed just do it because).
with the master being UNIX even the two san media servers give me little problems.
But help me if I have to change a tape drive - Unix cool - windows have given me a little fight a couple of times.
windows master - you cannot push to UNIX clients from the console
Unix master - you can push to UNIX clients from the console, and push to windows clients from from install media (except for the new 2008 servers - for some reason that does not work) Which means I have all my UNIX servers upgraded in about 15 minutes with out have to log into them.
I feel I don't work as hard has I use to with the aix master. Not to say I don't have problems some times, but it just seems to be easier. No registry to mess with, the bp.conf file is on disk and you can look at and and change it easy.
(I should also admit I am a UNIX admin - that learned a lot about windows when we had that master)
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