Minimal configuration, suggestions wanted.

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From: ben brugman (ben_at_niethier.nl)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:00:26 +0200

Minimal configuration.
(Performance is not an issue).

Dataloss should not happen. (But we do not account
for real dissasters, for example a big fire destroying
the complete production center, resulting
in the dataloss of 24 hours would be acceptable.)

The shop runs 7 x 24 hours.
Most is done during office hours.
Some is done during all day.
At night the system must be available but it is
used very limited.

Once a day a tape goes from the production machine to an
offsite safe.
The total amount of data has a disk footprint off
between 1 and 10 Gigabytes.

Offcourse there is a production machine and
a standby machine probably in another location.
(The second machine will be used for testing and
practicing procedures.)

Raid is required, raid protects agains single disks failures,
but what are the options for more protection ?
What configuration is considered minimal in these circumstances ?
Esspecially what to do with the disks ?
(OS / Logging / Data / Backupdata / Transactionlog backup) ?
What can be combined and what can not be combined ?
And how often to do the transactionlog backup ?
(Side question what "route" should the transactionlog(-backup)
take).

Keep in mind : We are looking for a minimal configuration.

Later on we will also looking for a 'larger' configuration with
more performance, a larger database etc. (But still no super
configuration. Something like 100-200 Gigabyte and more load).

Thanks for your thoughts,
ben brugman.

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