Look at virtualizing the Exchange server and look also at Martin Blackstone's comments about storage. That is the only way I have ever heard of that doing anything close to what you are asking to do.
Jon On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, wjh <nt...@hedgedigger.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > So the VP of one of our clients wants to be able to guarantee a 45 minute > window of downtime if there is a critical failure of their mail server. > They are using exchange 2003 enterprise in standalone on a HP DL360 with a > StorageWorks connected by scsi. The mdbdata folder is 450GB. This is for > less than 200 users. They currently have no retention policy and no limit > on mailbox sizes. They have 100 users with blackberries on a BES 5.0 > server. Very important that BBs stay workable. > > Backup Exec does incremental to disk and fulls to tape(LTO4) for offsite > storage. They have a metro Ethernet connection providing a 100 meg > connection to the internet at a data center. > > What would you consider a reasonable solution for DR within 45 minutes? > They supposedly had no money for projects/capital expenditures remaining > this year, but then he asked for this. > > Thanks for any thoughts/advice. > > Bill > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
