I'm more interested in how often he has hardware failures. It sounds like a common event!
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:45 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 Recovery > > > Doesn't play hell with your SIS? > > On 1/8/03 13:20, "John W. Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey. > > We have multiple small exchange servers that do their backups > to recovery > servers that have several mirrored drives so no single > production server has > any of its backups on the same drive mirror. With our > database size limit > we have one recovery server for every three mail servers. In > addition we > have at least one "hot spare" mail server. > > When there is an outage we note which folks are affected and > then recreate > their (now empty) mailboxes on the recovery server to get > them back into > email. We then Exmerge the backed-up mail out of the backups > into the new > mailboxes. Some tlog juggling has to be done in order to > recover all mail, > but it is fairly strait forward. > > Each of our servers costs ~6K using "off the shelf" > components. We learned > the value of lots of small servers when our Dell PowerEdge > equipment crapped > out on us repeatedly early last year. > > You could probably do this with three servers, then. One > for production, > one for recovery/backups and one hot spare. Under your limit, though? > Well, I guess that would depend on your shopping ability and > the components > you choose. > > John > > John W. Luther > Systems Administrator > Computing and Information Services > University of Missouri - Rolla > > At 11:02 AM 1/8/2003 -0800, Newsgroups wrote: > >I am not aware of a budget but when I mentioned the solution from > >"Marathon Technologies" they almost fell off their chairs. > I think they > >want to spend somewhere from $3k to $7K (Not sure, as they > have not told > >me anything). I told them that for that price the best > thing they could > >do is have another server and do a daily restore of the > database on that > >box and if the main server dies put up the new one instead. > What do you > >think? Any other ideas? > > > >Thanks > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Posted At: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:48 AM > >Posted To: Exchange Newsgroups > >Conversation: Exchange 2000 Recovery > >Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 Recovery > > > >Seamless, transparent, automatic and cheap? Don't believe > such a high > >availability solution exists. Even overspeccing a single box > to ensure > >it's > >fully redundant gets rather expensive on a per user basis > for only 180 > >users. What are the actual requirements surrounding the solution and > >what > >budget has been proposed to implement it? > > > >On 1/8/03 12:27, "Newsgroups" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >We are looking into different methods of recovery from > Exchange 2000. I > > > >know there are several ways of doing this. We want to be able to > >recover w/ out any user interaction (by that we mean it would be > >transparent to them and they don't want to be down for 4 to > 6 hours). > >We have about 180 users. I know we can cluster them but > they don't want > > > >to go that route because of the cost. Will software or hardware > >replication work and be transparent or are there any other > technologies > >that you may be aware of? > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > >To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > >To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
