Re: Backup and recovery strategy for SBS 2003.

In addition to Larry's comments I'd give serious consideration to changing
from software RAID to hardware RAID.

I have considered this but it's a charity that would need to buy the
hardware RAID card and they've got other priorities at the moment. The
software RAID has worked fine so far and they don't have many users to
the performance hit doesn't matter to us really.

cheers,
Phil.

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