Okay, what is the easiest, most efficient and most reliable to back up a server..Set hard drives in a raid configuration, or norton ghost? We are running NT Server. Thanks for the info. Laters.
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there are at least 2 different issues here.
1. is server uptime
2. backup
Raid while good is not a backup system, raid is designed to do 2 things, 1. give you a bigger HD, 2. Provide redundancy so that your server can keep running
the best raid system is raid 5 (requires min 3 HD's ), this gives extra space & redundency
2. Backup - the best software that i know off is seagate backup exec - note most databases have to be stopped before they can be backed up
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if for example you have a fire (like whats supposed to have happend to TT) then all your stuff is gone
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Originally posted by Albinussoz Kheldar didn't see your reply - you're too quick - I must be going
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Originally posted by amd_demonI have heard tape drives work sometimes and other times they don't. We need the most reliable. Thanks for the info. Laters.
If you get a decent one & set it up right - it works all the time
of course the tape needs to be stored offsite or its a waste of time
All of our file servers have redundancy through RAID - To prevent an interuption in service in the event of a drive failure, and a tape backup every 24hrs.
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Originally posted by RDR
that's like saying some PC's work and other's don't
If you get a decent one & set it up right - it works all the time
of course the tape needs to be stored offsite or its a waste of time
All of our file servers have redundancy through RAID - To prevent an interuption in service in the event of a drive failure, and a tape backup every 24hrs.
you forgot the most important thing IMHO and that is to test your backup strategy by doing test restores every so often from a good backup set. Most admins never do these especially full restores to a test server which if successful at least tell you that in an emergency you can just install the O/S & backup software on a new server and do a full resotre of all the data on the new server.
At the very least you have to make sure you can do test restores of single files and directories..
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Originally posted by DigitalDD
At the very least you have to make sure you can do test restores of single files and directories..
we have to do actual restores of several large database files - on a regular basis.
It seems a particular 3rd party interface for Access that we use is particularly succeptable to corruption - of course their support dept. blames our network - which is bullsh!t:
I think we're just overworking Access & probably should be using SQL - not a cheap switch to make...damn Microshaft:shoot2:
what was I talking about again......:confused:
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interesting, what is the name of the software that uses the database you speak of...are you running win2k server?
as we have a few clients using some software that we provide support for that is built with a Access db, and an SQL option...we founf that there is a correlation between win2ks and the corruption, nt4 and access or sql, or win2ks and sql databases all remain in tact...
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