I wondered that in this whole discussion about how to protect yourself from a harddrive-failure the cheapest way - why don't you just use the built-in SW-Raid features of your Windows Server? Naturally, I'm not really a big fan of this SW-Raid and have truly never used them myself (now why would that be?), but with such a low budged you can't really be too choosy...
This would give you all the benefits of an automated failover, obviously at the cost of some CPU of the server - which could well be unnoticible for you. It's at least something to look into. However, I'd be interested to hear, if others have already used the Windows SW-Raid features and how their experience is with these...?? Is it ok for the really small companies with NO budged (but a second disk), or would you keep your fingers off? /Guido -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 20:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups No they are too cheap to buy a few hard drives and a raid card :-\ I'll look into Ghost and pcInspector. Do you know if Drive Image by Symantec will work on Win2k server or just workstations? On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Mark Nold wrote: > They would spring for Ghost or pcInspector or the like, but not 80 > bucks > for a 120G IDE drive that you could slap in there to mirror? > > Do you have any "dead" pc's lying around that you can grab the IDE > drive > from? Not the best I know, but seems like it would be better than > re-imaging your drive after every change you made in AD to keep your > "backup" fresh. > > My 2cents anyway.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups > > Because it's a small company and I have recommended it a hundred times > but in a nutshell, they are too cheap even though we have experienced a > server crash which took about almost a week to restore everything > (which costs more for paying me) and they don't realize a RAID will > solve about almost everything and cheaper. > > > On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Coleman, Hunter wrote: > >> If you're concerned about the hard drive failing, why not just set up > a >> RAID1 (mirror) configuration? Cost would be low, and you won't have to > >> worry >> about creating disk images and swapping hard drives around. >> >> Hunter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:00 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups >> >> First of all, thank you for the information :-) >> >> I would like to make a complete hard drive backup onto the firewire >> drive >> (like a complete image) so that if the one on my system crashed then I > >> can >> just get the hard drive on the fire wire cable and put it into the IDE >> ribbons. >> >> I probably should have mentioned that what I am using is just a fire >> wire >> cable that lets you connect any type of IDE drive to it. >> >> So with pcinspector, would it be able to make a complete copy of the >> hard >> drive (with all the partitions, bootup stuff, etc) to another hard >> drive and >> have that hard drive be exactly the same as the hard drive in the >> system so >> in the event of a crash I can just swap the hard drive, start up the >> system, >> and everything is back to normal with all my Active Directory users, >> etc? >> >> Thanks once again in advanced. >> >> Jake >> >> >> >> On Jan 14, 2004, at 4:25 AM, GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) > wrote: >> >>> using a FW drive, you may run into issues with available drivers to >>> allow you to copy the data without first re-installing an OS on the >>> box. >>> There >>> are some cool free-utilities (such as a disk-cloner) that you may > want >>> to look at - but I have no idea if they support drives connected via >>> FW: >>> http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm >>> >>> so in worst case, you'd have to restore the OS onto the new harddrive >>> (default install - incl. the FW driver, if this is not in the > default) >>> and then restore your backup afterwards onto this new drive. >>> >>> Otherwise you may preferr using a backup on tape afterall, for which >>> you can get routines to completely restore a server from bare-metal >>> fully automated. >>> >>> /Guido >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor >>> Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 00:04 >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups >>> >>> I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hard drive >>> to a drive on my firewire drive. >>> >>> If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the data on >>> my firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and it > will >>> have all the active directory users and all that stuff? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >>> List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >>> List archive: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >>> List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >>> List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >>> List archive: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >>> >> >> List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >> List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >> List archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >> List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >> List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >> List archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >> > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
