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Mike R. · Guest

I’m looking for a replication method for disaster recovery purposes. The
total data I currently have is about 30 GB. I read about FRS and FDS and
still I am not sure if they are the right solution for my business.

Let me tell you little about my network:

I have 2 servers:

1) SBS 2003:

Applications:
IIS, Exchange 2003, Printers, Shared Folders, Active Directories, Veritas
Backup Exec 9.1, DHCP, DNS, and AntiVirus. This is my primary Domain
Controller and server.

Hardware:
Giga NICs (x2)
Raid Controller with raid hard drive
Tape device
Etc.

2) Server 2003

Applications:
IIS, SQL 2000, ColdFusion, Shared Folders, Active Directories, and Veritas
Backup Exec 9.1.

Hardware:
Same as server 1

Here is a little map of my internet coming in:

Internet > Firewall > Giga Switch > Server 1, Server 2, stations and printers

Now I want to buy a remote storage device and replicate
directories/files/configurations from these servers on it. The purpose would
be if a server goes down I want this system comes to play and at least keep
the Shared Folders running. It would be nice if it can have information about
active directories and as well as applications but my priority are my Shared
Folders. Basically this device will be just sitting there and synchronize
server files every once a while.

My other question is what kind of hardware I need? Just a remote storage
such a big hard drive or it has to be something special such as Dell
PowerVault 770N?

Thanks very much in advanced,

Mike

Mike Frederick · Guest

StorageX from NuView (www.nuview.com) handles this situation nicely.

You can create a DR policy that will periodically keep data in sync and that
creates a DFS link pointing to 2 shares. One share is kept online while the
other is offline. A monitoring agent is running which watches the
availablility of the online share. If the share cannot be accessed,
StorageX will swap the states of the DFS targets and your data will be
available again in seconds.

Sorry for the commercial but this is *exactly* one of the things we do.

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