Hmmm... I guess we can agree to disagree on the VSS. I can't
think of a better solution than to have a fat pipe between two remote data
centers with SANs of critical data being replicated in real time. Having
data separated by 1500 miles and being up-to-the-second replicated - what more
would one need? We're doing this at present with Cisco FC switches for the
SAN, ATM for the fat pipe. Intent is to get Win2k3 involved as the method
for user managed restore of deleted files.
My
experiences with Dfs have more to do with FRS and general issues that are about
3 years old. FRS is better - not great, and had to do with just a lot of
limitation that was in Dfs 3 years ago that likely may no longer exist.
We're quite successful without it - and the last I need to do is to create
more headaches. The client departments do enough of that for me.....
;-)
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Active
Directory
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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Rick -
Thanks for the info. I've found VSS to be quite useful in our lab, but don't think it will work well for Disaster Recovery. What bad experience did you have with DFS?
Jeff
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Possibly OT - DFS vs 3rd party DRJeffrey,I personally am not a big fan of Dfs - mainly due to a very bad experience in the early days of Windows 2000 (April 2000). It has gotten better, but is not really a great solution to bank your DR process on. IMHO, depending on what your bandwidth is like, the move with Windows Server 2003 might justify itself with Volume Shadow Services. I've been working closely with VSS and primarily, Volume Shadow Copy, and IMHO, it Rocks!Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]I have a customer looking for a disaster recovery solution for their Active Directory domain. They have one site on each coast and want to replicate the data. A VPN is available to each location. I was looking at either DoubleTake or a Veritas solution (Volume Replicator or Storage Replicator) but am having a hard time justifying using this over the built-in DFS. Anyone with any thoughts on this?
