I believe by putting OT in the subject I have not violated any rules
of the group. If so feel free to flame me as it is deserved and know
that it was out of ignorance and not a disregard of proper etiquette.
A friend with a small company and limited budget has called in a
favor asking me to set up a completely hands off nightly back up of
his 2 NT servers.
My first attempt was to use Ghost to create an image of the entire
HDD for both servers on a separate machine, which I was then going to
ftp those files to a computer set up at his house. It's a 9-5 office
so the downtime while Ghost ran in DOS mode was not an issue, he
could tolerate losing an entire day's data with minimal pain, it
would give him a second copy at a remote location to deal with major
catastrophe such as fire, and should he ever need to restore he would
only need to boot from a floppy I prepared and follow a simple dialog
to restore the entire system.
In theory it's a perfect solution, right ???
Why is it all the theoretical perfect solutions never work?
He has a domain controller. I say domain controller instead of
primary domain controller because there is no secondary. Can't boot
the machine on the network without a domain controller and creating a
secondary is probably not too difficult but I'm not a windoze guy so
don't really have a clue.
Any ideas how I can accomplish my mission without spending more than
a couple hundred dollars cash and a couple more hours of my time? In
the event he ever has to restore the backup it has to be a simple
process because checking mail and browsing the web are challenging to him.
Also, any recommendations for an automated FTP program that can
handle this simple task? I'm sure I can find one but recommendations
would help so that it is hopefully reliable and easy to use.
TIA
Jeff
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