+1, perhaps just add some email alerts to your scripting, and automate things a little but more. I set my critical scripts to update a central repository as well as email out alerts. If the repositories are not updated, an alert in generated that something is broken, and is failing to run/send email alerts. THEN, I go look at logs.
________________________________ From: Phil Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Solutions for lower stress levels? Actually Microsoft's backup program is suppose to work very well and does what you have requested. Phil From: Spencer Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup Solutions for lower stress levels? I currently have 5 servers running Exchange 2003, SQL 2005, Intranets, Websites and all the other usual stuff running on Windows 2003 R2 - no Sharepoint yet but that might be coming soon! They all backup to a raid1 array in 1 server and then this is copied to a removable drive for offsite storage My question is - are there any products that will make managing this easier on my stress levels? I have got Batch files doing systemstate ntbackups - 4 logfiles Batch files doing exchange ntbackup - 1 logfile Auto Exmerge export - 1 logfile Robocopy copying everything - 7 logfiles SQL backups to disk - 9 logfiles There is also backup exec but I'm allergic to anything Symantec lately! All I want (Am I asking too much) is 1 solution that can do D2D2D and possibly D2D2T that can cope with all of the above and make the management easier? I seem to spend a good hour each day reading through the logfiles to check for errors and I'm still not convinced that I could get everything back if something happened! Thanks ...Spence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
