>>> ... A few lawyer >>> clients have JungleDisk aka RackSpace/Amazon but they charge by the gig. This piqued my curiosity - we are in the process of rebuilding our Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan here and have been looking at using the Barracuda backup device. It's a pretty snazzy deal - on-site and cloud based backup solution with the ability to do point-in-time and web based restores. They're also claiming (not sure if it's accurate) that their de-duplication technology will cut our storage needs in half.
The cloud storage does cost - $50/200Gb/mo The brick wall we're hitting is on the "business continuity" side - my initial plan was to have VMWare images of our 5 core machines configured and tucked away in the Amazon cloud and in case of a catastrophic event (fire, collapsed roof destroying server room, bus hitting building) we could spin them up and perform a system restore from the cloud. What I discovered is that unless we have a physical device we can't do system state, exchange or SQL Database restores. I'm thinking that means we'll have to be a bit more creative in what we backup and how we plan the restore process. So aside from sharing the Barracuda solution I'll ask - if you've been given a 4-6 hour window to have core business functionality back up and running on 5 servers in an emergency (we do have money budgeted, around $7k), what solution would you put in place? Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
