On Feb 8, 2008 3:51 AM, Dave Crozier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, > 1. Primarily, all our servers are raid HP Kit with redundant power > supplies > etc. we have 3 servers in total connected in a triangle with gigabit fibre > between each point. The HP intelligent hubs can route traffic > automatically > down any of the triangle legs should any leg fail. Also each fibre link > also > has a standby duplicate fibre leg in the same ducting. > > 2. The main primary server real time mirrored onto a secondary server > which > is on our other site. The software used is Doubletake which you may well > have heard me eulogize over in list. If the main server dies the secondary > server takes over within 15 seconds and assumes the primary IP address > automatically until the primary server is fixed. > > 3. The secondary server is snapshot every 15 minutes onto a tertiary > server, > again at a different location and this snapshot is also committed to tape > at > the same time with each days snapshot(s) tape removed off site daily. > > 4. The VFP Backup program also saves a VFP snapshot onto the secondary > server every hour. > > 5. The 55Gb of data is also mirrored nightly onto USB 120Gb external drive > using Syncback Software (Cycled one per day over a week) and these are > taken > off site by one of the directors - all data is encrypted needless to say. > > 6. We also have UPS's on all the PC's and servers as well as a standby > generator at each of the server locations which is capable of running > about > 10 client PC's and the server as all the computers are on a separate > electricity sub system to the normal office. > > At present we run at about 55Gb data storage size in total with the VFP > system using up about 1.8Gb and we actually test a real failover once > every > month as well as a complete restore onto a 4th development server. > > I think we have covered all the bases, and short of nuclear holocaust > breaking out we are covered. > > Dave Crozier > ------------------------------------------------------- Looks like a solid plan.
Just as an oh BTW do you have tape readers off site that can ready your existing tapes? I'll try to get some tornado damage pics this weekend so you can see second hand how important that off site storage is. I can see some shells of what a biz use to be but there was nothing inside the walls from the front to the back wall on Wed morning. Everything was gone. It all got sent to the creek next to the building. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
