Re: New Hardware and Setup Advice
- From: "Grey Lancaster SBS Rocks MVP]" <grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:07:38 -0400
I have no problems with your plan. Your plan should be what you are
comfortable doing and you should practice/test it. Sometimes when you
restore it will kick off you have 30 days to reactivate.
Just for kicks look at
http://www.usb-ware.com/sata-hot-swap-internal-drive-kit.htm as another
idea. So if your drives were in trays and the power supply died, swap em to
your spare box and plug it in :)
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"Richard Wagstaff" <rwagstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We are a small family-owned company who are about to move into a new
location and I'm looking to start from scratch. The problem is that we
don't have the budget to bring in outside experts and I'm certainly no
expert (although I've been watching over our current SBS 2003 network for
some years).
These are my thoughts as to how to proceed and I'd be really grateful if
some kind should could give me their thoughts.
Currently our server (SBS 2003 Standard) has only two HDD's. Disk 0 is
split into C & D - C has the operating system and D has Exchange. Drive 1
has the data. We back up Drive 1 & Exchange every day using Backup Exec
10 (SBS) and each week an image is taken on C & D using Powerquest's V2i
Protector.
We have 8 workstations all running XP Pro SP2
My thoughts are to buy two identical servers (something like Dell's
Poweredge 830) so if one server dies I can copy the drive image to the
"spare" C & D drives, restore the data to the second disk and be up and
running again with the minimum delay. I'm thinking of sticking with SBS
2003 Standard.
We also have an old accounts/software package that is a Btrieve based
package. This is getting very long in the tooth now so I'm planning to
put this onto another server box running Windows Server 2000. By doing
this I'm hoping that future "improvements" to SBS 2003 will not trash our
accounts package.
We will also need a new network switch and I'm guessing that we will only
need a basic unmanaged switch (we're currently using a Netgear FS 524. At
present out firewall a is taken care of by a Netgear FVS 328.
Does this plan sound feasible or I'm I totally off the mark here? I'm
really looking for a fairly sound system that can be recovered as quickly
as possible in the event of a major hardware failure in the server.
Many thanks
Richard
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