How about we meet at the malt shop afterwards, do our hair and listen to some 45s?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Blackstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 > That's a pretty nice server. That's what I have. > > First off, I would look at Exchange 2003 rather than 2000. Its high > availability features are MUCH MUCH better than they were in past versions. > > So, what are your options? Well, Exchange doesn't mirror, so forget that. > You could always go with Clustering which if we are not talking about E2K3, > I wouldn't recommend either. SAN is another option. > > I'm not sure what your cause was for the issue this time, but one thing to > remember, no matter what you use you will still have at least one point of > failure, and that is the disk subsystem. > > So what happened anyways? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:21 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 > > Thanks for the reply. > > What I have now is: > > One Server - Compaq ML530 > Dual CPU > 2GB RAM > 3 drives at 36.4 each - RAID 5 > Windows 2000 Advanced Server > 1000 Mailboxes > > Samantha > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:14 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 > > > Could you tell us a little bit about what you have now? > Like what brand of hardware, model, and your current configuration? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:14 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: High Availability Exchange 2000 > > Hello All. > > Little Background: > Last week, Exchange 5.5 server went ka-poot early in the day and I was > unable to recover the IS. We ended up losing 11 hours of data that was not > on a backup tape. A key member of the management team has had the stance in > the past that email is "best-effort". I knew that would fly until the time > that messages and calendar info was lost. I was right! Where there was no > money before has come lots of money to make Exchange high availability. > Amazing what a little data loss can produce...huh? Anyhoo, my task now is > to find information about either SANs, Clustering, Mirroring....???? > > Any suggestions or comments is always appreciated by you. > > Samantha > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]