John you are still missing the point. Buy a tape library, duplicate your Storage, use external drives. Who cares? You must define your requirements.
How much data do you have? How fast do you need it recovered? How long will it take to backup based on the technology? Will it meet your backup window? What do you do for Business Continuity? Define the objectives...BEFORE YOUR PURCHASE. A tape library costs thousands of dollars, are there other ways, does it fit within your objectives, will the tape library scale to 5 TB as you mention before? These are the goals we have been trying to get you to define before just executing on technology.. -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN question My response would suggest that we have a tape or set of tapes somewhere that we can restore to new hardware, even if it means building a new domain and joining each machine to the domain. A previous employer had their SBS server crash. I had help rebuilding it and had to rejoin each machine (about a dozen in that case) to the domain. It was a lot of work, but I got it done. At that point, they did not have a backup, so they lost pretty much everything and had to start from scratch. I'm trying to prevent that. I think maybe I'll start by looking at getting a tape library so we can at least back up what we have, and possibly do a bare-metal restore. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN question Assuming a scenario where both servers get wiped out, what does management expect to happen? Note, this isn't a question I expect you to answer, but is a question you need to have management answer, and plan accordingly. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
