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Windows server 2003 licencing
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Data on server, OS and apps backed up
In article , Jez T wrote:
WTF??? Have you ever heard of OBDR? Google it and see what comes up. ODBR is good for servers in small environments (few servers). For PCs, you backup any data to a server and reimage / reinstall the PC if necessary. Jez -- Is this something that I can find on my 5-7 year-old Compaq DLT drive I bought a while back or is this something only on newer equipment? I was unable to bring up HP's compatibility page for this -- perhaps their FTP server is doa. Thanks! |
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Data on server, OS and apps backed up
"Rick F." wrote in message ... In article , Jez T wrote: WTF??? Have you ever heard of OBDR? Google it and see what comes up. ODBR is good for servers in small environments (few servers). For PCs, you backup any data to a server and reimage / reinstall the PC if necessary. Jez -- Is this something that I can find on my 5-7 year-old Compaq DLT drive I bought a while back or is this something only on newer equipment? I was unable to bring up HP's compatibility page for this -- perhaps their FTP server is doa. Thanks! OBDR is quite recent. The idea is you effectively boot from tape and the whole server will restore. With older hardware, you have a slightly different principle to restore a server from a single tape. You need the right software to do it. I think Arcserve and BackupExec support this option. You have to make a special recovery floppy. You can then boot to that floppy and restore from your tape without needing an OS on the server. However, you need the software to do it. I know it will work because I had a case about this, but that was 6 years ago with ArcServe 6.5 (as it was then), so I'm a little bit sketchy on the details. You'll have to research the SW options currently available. Personally, I'd go for a simple tried-and-tested backup on older hardware with a straightforward install-OS + recover procedure. Whatever you do, test it and document it BEFORE you need to use it... |
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Data on server, OS and apps backed up
"Jez T" wrote in message ... "Rick F." wrote in message ... In article , Jez T wrote: WTF??? Have you ever heard of OBDR? Google it and see what comes up. ODBR is good for servers in small environments (few servers). For PCs, you backup any data to a server and reimage / reinstall the PC if necessary. Jez -- Is this something that I can find on my 5-7 year-old Compaq DLT drive I bought a while back or is this something only on newer equipment? I was unable to bring up HP's compatibility page for this -- perhaps their FTP server is doa. Thanks! OBDR is quite recent. The idea is you effectively boot from tape and the whole server will restore. With older hardware, you have a slightly different principle to restore a server from a single tape. You need the right software to do it. I think Arcserve and BackupExec support this option. You have to make a special recovery floppy. You can then boot to that floppy and restore from your tape without needing an OS on the server. However, you need the software to do it. I know it will work because I had a case about this, but that was 6 years ago with ArcServe 6.5 (as it was then), so I'm a little bit sketchy on the details. You'll have to research the SW options currently available. Personally, I'd go for a simple tried-and-tested backup on older hardware with a straightforward install-OS + recover procedure. Whatever you do, test it and document it BEFORE you need to use it... Good post Jez, I completely agree. Tho, im not a fan of OBDR since it requires that a local tape drive be attached to every machine (if i recall correctly). I never really played with those features, as we have always had a solid Data recovery, Disaster recovery methology. We use Veritas NetBackup and leverage Shadow Copy Services for 2003 servers, and "all local disks and system state backups" for 2000 servers. Start with a machine with a base OS load, and you can restore it completely to the point of your last backup. We have DR exercises several times a year where we recovery AD and various parts (application environments) of the production environment. Its been working very well for us. - LC |
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Data on server, OS and apps backed up
"Nut Cracker" wrote Good post Jez, I completely agree. Tho, im not a fan of OBDR since it requires that a local tape drive be attached to every machine (if i recall correctly). Almost. A quick trawl through the documentation confirms that you can use it with USB DAT drives. However, you're not going to us using USB DAT drives in anything other than a small-server environment... |
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