Backups are performed with an 8mm Exabyte 8505XL tape drive, which can dump 5 GB of information on a single 8mm tape cartridge without data compression. An 8mm Exabyte 8500 tape drive is used for dumps on the other servers. Emergency Provisions Besides redundant servers, NetSide is also prepared to operate in emergency conditions, such as city-wide power failures as experienced during Hurricane Andrew. Housed in a solid concrete block structure, we don't expect heavy storm damage to occur. Those not familiar with UNIX commands can use a friendly menu interface for their system command needs.
Manual pages are available online for virtually every system command.
In fact, our setup allows the user to select at login time the preferred method of system access. Utilities and Miscellaneous Net Software NetSide users enjoy a wide variety of Internet information search, access, retrieval, and forwarding tools. NetSide maintains a User's White Pages Directory , accessible world-wide. We also support commercial Web pages for our business account customers. Commercial Web sites with domains are running on our dedicated Apache Web server.