Exchange and Business Continuity Practices

[W.Egan]

All,

My company is evaluating both Veritas Volume Replicator and Steeleye
Lifekeeper for Data Replication (formerly an NCR product) for business
continuity purposes of an exchange 5.5 organization.  We're a small
organization with one NT4 domain and one Exchange 5.5 site.  Eventually
we'll go to AD 2003 and Exchange 2003.  We have a datacenter at company
headquarters and a datacenter at a remote colocation facility which we
fully control.  Connectivity between the 2 datacenters is a dedicated DS3.

The current plan is that if HQ were wiped out by disaster (natural or
otherwise), having a remote replicated exchange information store and
domain controller would allow us to bring up the information store in a
matter of minutes if we so desired.  Both of these products perform
sector-level copies of the volume housing the production exchange
information stores and txn logs and do write order integrity maintenance. 
The target of the replication would be a server with Exchange installed
but off-line.  The target replicated volumes are locked by the replication
software until the replication is fractured.

Has anyone used either of these?  Any war stories or success stories with
either?  Or alternative products that are better suited to this?

thanks much for the time and info,
wegan

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RE: Exchange and Business Continuity Practices

[Tom Meunier]

http://messageone.com/solutions/EMS.asp
  They had a trial by fire of that type of scenario with the recent
blackout and hurricane, I guess.  Maybe they have customer referrals of
people who actually had the disaster.

Also, I hear that they include Chris Scharff's cell phone number in
every box.

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 From: W.Egan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 The current plan is that if HQ were wiped out by disaster 
 (natural or otherwise), having a remote replicated exchange 
 information store and domain controller would allow us to 
 bring up the information store in a matter of minutes if we 
 so desired. 

  Or alternative products that are better 
 suited to this?


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