Sure they are - ie: High availability systems are not cheap... Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:50 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Failover Servers AND Restore/Recovery Server Well high availability and cheap are not normally used together in the same sentence. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bridges, Samantha Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Failover Servers AND Restore/Recovery Server Thanks Tony. Currently Exchange 2000. No plans to upgrade to 2003 domain for 1 to 2 years. I already know the answer for the third question....as cheap as possible. School districts are notorious for never having $$. :) -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:07 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Failover Servers AND Restore/Recovery Server Upgrade to 2003 and deploy clustering with a well designed SAN. Also maybe a 3rd question should have been what is my budget for this. From: "Bridges, Samantha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Failover Servers AND Restore/Recovery Server Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:03:08 -0500 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Exchange 2000 Dual Processor Compaq ML350 25 GB IS Hello All. My management wants a high availability solution put in place that includes both a failover solution AND a recovery solution. A failover for hardware failures and a recovery for IS corruption etc... If the primary IS corrupts than most likely the secondary will corrupt also. I have been looking at SteelEye and Neverfail for a failover solution (any comments on these two companies would be appreciated). Have been having a problem getting neverfail to work and will start testing the SteelEye next week sometime. As for the recovery server I am interested in your thoughts. I asked my management two questions, 1)How long are you willing to wait for services to be restored? And 2)How much data are you willing to lose? Their answer to those questions were, 1) 15 minutes and 2) NONE. Ok...with those questions being answered, does anyone in this forum have a solution in place that can meet the request of my management? They want another solution in place in case the failover "fails". Is the answer to have a third server that just sits there (pre built of course) ready to go incase the failover solution falls short? I do nightly online backups of Exchange and would need time to restore the backup on the recovery server plus add the transaction logs in. This will take more than the 15 minute allotment. Any ideas or comments would be helpful. 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