I work for a small consulting firm for which I do CF
programing almost exclusively. However, as a company we often set up
backups for our clients. I can think of one client where we backed up
their entire network to a linux box over a gigabit connection (samba
was thrown in to the solution there somewhere). Those backups lived on
external USB hard drives (one for each day of the week), so they could
move unused drives off site if they wished.
Since you're not a windoze guy, have you considered a linux solution
like this? We just set up a cron job to run our "little" backup script.
Like I said, my role in the company is just about exclusively CF
programming, so I don't know allot of the gritty details, but I thought
this might spark some creative ideas from you or the group. :)
Also (and I'll be letting my ignorance show here), why can't you just
ghost the domain controller as well?
And speaking specifically of CF backups I only bother to back up my
code (since the server does nothing else outside of hosting our CF
programs). If the server dies I just rebuild it, and then copy my
backup of wwwroot over the newly created wwwroot. Does anybody else do
anything more than that?
Chris
Tim Fitzpatrick wrote:
I don't think it's OT, Jeff, everyone needs to back up
their CF servers!
I don't have an anwer for you, just wanted to say that... but I'm also
curious to see what is suggested.
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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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