Disaster Recovery Query

[MikeGR]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to work on a DR solution for our critical servers, and I wanted some advice on what I'm planning.

I basically want to take Ghost images of each server, which I will keep on CD, and run backups nightly as per normal.

In the event of a disaster, I could just clone the server from the image and then use the backup tapes to bring all directories up to date.

This will be on a file server, PDC, Exchange server and SQL server.

Is there anything I should be aware of that anyone could advise on?

 

[electraboy]

You could also install ontrack fixit, which makes backups from your critical files so you can in some cases boot with a recovery disk and restore only the important stuff
(which isn't that much faster, i suppose).

Making an image of a fileserver seems a little bit waste of whatever to me. You better take an incremental backup every (...). It seems to me that the contents of a fileserver are changing often, so an image would be fast out of use. In case of disaster you can always put any machine as a fileserver. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​

 

[Doyler1]

It depends what servers you are using. Are they Just Towers or are they Compaq, HP or another well-known make?
If they are Towers. Then go ahead and image the system and boot partitions. Use a backup software solution to backup the data stores.
If they are Compaq servers etc.
Mirror the system and boot partition and raid 5 the data stores then use your backup solution.