My understanding of the M.S. licencing is that you can run up a spare server using your existing licences including server 2003 and M.S. sql server, have it all configured and ready to go but turned off. Then if disaster strikes grab your backup and restore to it. No licence extra fees payable.
Andrew.C -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr Nigel Farrier Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:37 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] backup! I was actualy referring to having a backup machine for the doctors/receptionist desks and not the server as that is another story. For those of us that can run the server using XP and MSDE or Express this is not a problem as the spare machine can be plugged in easily to fill that role. Those of you using MS SQL full edition have to make a choice. Do you pay for additional licences or not or just try to get the best server with redundant everything inside. N Michael Christie wrote: > The main reason we haven't installed a backup spare server is the cost > of the SQL licence in our case Gupta SQL. The licence costs a couple > of thousand dollars in itself. This is in addition to the hardware, > and installation etc etc. > > Dr Nigel Farrier wrote: >> and having a spare machine is a good idea as a backup in itself - had >> more than one occasion when a computer fries itself - swapped it out >> for the backup machine in a few minutes and then had time to repair >> it at leisure. Not only the database needs a backup but consider the >> hardware as well. >> N >> >> Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: >>> Tim >>> >>> An addendum to my last post. For most GP's the cost of buying a >>> standalone PC to test backups is not that great. Buying one will >>> last many years as all it will have on is an OS, your medical >>> software. Nothing else. >>> >>> Cedric > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
