8888 feet. No building that tall that I know of.
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: mail server DR ? so 'show' him how much 450GB of data is ... measure the thickness of a 1.44mb floppy diskette, and then figure out how many floppies it would take to hold 450GB ( (450 x 1024)/ 1.44 ) and multiply by that thickness ... I did that once probably around 2001, and with much less data to back up, and came up with a stack of floppies taller than the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta ( 70 stories tall ) Or maybe then do the same with the thickness of a CD-ROM ... you get the idea ... I've found that executives prefer a 5 second visual to a 30 second description with words and numbers On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, wjh <nt...@hedgedigger.com> wrote: Yeah, I think he believes it is just a matter of having a server in cold storage. And I don't think he knows we are talking about 450 gigs of data. Bill Jay Dale wrote: That's the rub.J From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: mail server DR ? ask him how much it will cost to be down for more than 45 miutes ;-) 2009/10/13 Jay Dale <jd...@xpresstel.com> Too expensive for what he's looking for. Jay From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: mail server DR ? Double Take - will have you up in running in 5 minutes 2009/10/13 Davies,Matt <mdav...@generalatlantic.com> Maybe I'm missing the point here, but 45 minute downtime can be achieved, but how many minutes/hours of data are you prepared to lose ? Given that money is a problem so some form of asyn replication is used. Matt -----Original Message----- From: wjh [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: 13 October 2009 14:38 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: mail server DR ? 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/> ~ _____________________________________________________________ This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at h...@generalatlantic.com . Thank You. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Regards, Clayton clay...@alsipius.com http://alsipius.com <http://alsipius.com/> -- Regards, Clayton clay...@alsipius.com http://alsipius.com <http://alsipius.com/> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
