I am in the process of building a hot-backup fileserver. Pretty much any current server will work. I found a rackmount external drivecage ($1200) that holds 14 hotswap SATA drives and the drivecage connects to the server via U320 SCSI. Add (14) 400GB SATA drives and you've got yourself 5.2 TB of RAID5. Although, I will probably setup two arrays with less drives as a RAID-10 setup. Currently 400GB SATA hard drives are about $250 each. So for less than $6,000 you've got around 5TB of usable storage. I'm sure the old adage of all your eggs in one basket applies here, but who can resist cheap storage!
-----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backups Add some cheap IDE drives. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backups Don't know if we have room on the Exchange server for that. We were thinking of just directly creating the file on the file server which will have TONS of drivespace when it's finally built... -----Original Message----- From: Geni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:00 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: re: Backups The easiest backup strategy is usually to do an NTbackup-to-file of the Exchange information stores, then use another backup utility to back that file up to a tape or other removable storage media. If you do backup to file and don't have a tape drive available, at least copy that backup file to another server location somewhere, in case the server goes TU. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
