Hey. We have multiple small exchange servers that do their backups to recovery servers that have several mirrored drives so no single production server has any of its backups on the same drive mirror. With our database size limit we have one recovery server for every three mail servers. In addition we have at least one "hot spare" mail server.
When there is an outage we note which folks are affected and then recreate their (now empty) mailboxes on the recovery server to get them back into email. We then Exmerge the backed-up mail out of the backups into the new mailboxes. Some tlog juggling has to be done in order to recover all mail, but it is fairly strait forward. Each of our servers costs ~6K using "off the shelf" components. We learned the value of lots of small servers when our Dell PowerEdge equipment crapped out on us repeatedly early last year. You could probably do this with three servers, then. One for production, one for recovery/backups and one hot spare. Under your limit, though? Well, I guess that would depend on your shopping ability and the components you choose. John John W. Luther Systems Administrator Computing and Information Services University of Missouri - Rolla At 11:02 AM 1/8/2003 -0800, Newsgroups wrote: >I am not aware of a budget but when I mentioned the solution from >"Marathon Technologies" they almost fell off their chairs. I think they >want to spend somewhere from $3k to $7K (Not sure, as they have not told >me anything). I told them that for that price the best thing they could >do is have another server and do a daily restore of the database on that >box and if the main server dies put up the new one instead. What do you >think? Any other ideas? > >Thanks > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Posted At: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:48 AM >Posted To: Exchange Newsgroups >Conversation: Exchange 2000 Recovery >Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 Recovery > >Seamless, transparent, automatic and cheap? Don't believe such a high >availability solution exists. Even overspeccing a single box to ensure >it's >fully redundant gets rather expensive on a per user basis for only 180 >users. What are the actual requirements surrounding the solution and >what >budget has been proposed to implement it? > >On 1/8/03 12:27, "Newsgroups" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >We are looking into different methods of recovery from Exchange 2000. I > >know there are several ways of doing this. We want to be able to >recover w/ out any user interaction (by that we mean it would be >transparent to them and they don't want to be down for 4 to 6 hours). >We have about 180 users. I know we can cluster them but they don't want > >to go that route because of the cost. Will software or hardware >replication work and be transparent or are there any other technologies >that you may be aware of? > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_________________________________________________________________ >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
