Absolutely Andrew!.. Ha I put together a JBOD SAN solution via fibre (160 Gig array) that we use just for this purpose at our main location. Got really tired of trying to find tapes... large enough to hold data and wouldn't over flex the budget. My theory was that if one of the servers crashed a hard drive you'd have to hope that the tape didn't get old or stretched and was able to 'restore' correctly. Out of all the tape functions I've dealt with since the early 80's I'd have to say I never felt 'secure' about our data being backed up cleanly. Now if a hd failure would ever happen just about anyone can swap the hd out.. fast.
~Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew P. > Kaplan > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re[3]: [IMail Forum] Mirroring an iMail server > > > >>The AT command could be used to establish a 'backup' routine. > > Don't forget about the primary server. For less than $500 you > can setup hot > swappable IDE hard drives. One of my drives died a while back. I just > swapped in a replacement ( I bought 3 and kept an identical spare). > > Zero downtime ;-) > > > Andrew P. Kaplan > www.cshore.com > > Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, > opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none. > -- Doug Larson > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
