No, it doesn't. I've asked our Exchange Admin about the SIS, but he is out sick today. Our current setup is quite stable now.
I failed to mention we are running Exchange 2000. We also have an independent box on which we run the Perl scripts that do the automated jiggery pokery. At 02:45 PM 1/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Doesn't play hell with your SIS? > >On 1/8/03 13:20, "John W. Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >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] > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >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]
