Have an image server at my house and bill it to the company to do their backups. I did this for a while for a higher education that ran 3 servers and had 8 universities connecting to it. My house was the offsite backup for sql, exchange, data, etc. I had a static image on dvd in case system state or something got screwed up but did data nightly. Started it at 8pm as soon as night sessions ended in hopes that anything changed that dat would be finished by 7am when the school opened. Don't know what they do now since I don't help them.
-----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:chumph...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:11 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Trust Carbonite >>> ... 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:345190 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
