Re: Poor man's disaster recovery

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:41:37 GMT

Aside from your question, the first thing I'd suggest is a proper
backup strategy. Copying files to another system and backing that up
isn't it.

Jeff

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:45:00 +0100, "Mark Alexander Bertenshaw"
<mark.bertenshaw@virgin.net> wrote:

>I have recently been asked to provide a disaster recovery solution for my
>organisation. We currently have two stage backup which consists of copying
>everthing off a shared drive on the server onto another machine each night,
>and the next evening, backing up that data onto tape. Unfortunately, if we
>had a fire in the office that destroyed the area around our server, we would
>be in trouble.
>
>Our network consists of a single Windows 2000 server machine, with about 12
>internal client machines, and about 5 external clients. The server also
>acts as a router between a separate Netscreen 5GT firewall and the rest of
>the internal network. On the other side of the firewall is the ADSL router
>connecting us to the internet. We have a number of static IP addresses on
>the internet.
>
>We also have another site, which has a simpler configuration of a PC
>connected to an ADSL modem, with another machine connected to the PC via a
>cross-over cable. Unfortunately, the modem allocates the PC a dynamic IP
>address.
>
>I was thinking that we could buy a new server to replace the current server,
>and promote this to be the main Active Directory machine. After recreating
>the configuration of the old on the new, the old machine would be taken to
>the other site, where we would replace the ADSL modem with a router, and
>attach the existing PCs onto that router. Another Netscreen firewall would
>be attached to the router, and the old server be put behind that firewall.
>The firewall would be setup to as to create a tunnel between the firewalls
>at both sites. The old machine would now be a backup Active Directory to
>the old one, and we would arrange for data to be replicated to the old
>server.
>
>Can anybody comment on whether this is a viable idea? Could the first issue
>be that since the other site has a dynamic IP address? I am very sketchy on
>Active Directory, so assume complete ignorance on my part!

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