RE: First visit under the barter scheme

[Chris Langridge <chrisl@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

For backup you need to consider a couple of things:

1 touch restore: useful if you go down often but not really critical unless
you have biz class systems which will cost you $xxx for every hour of down
time.

Media for backing up to: 15 - 20 gig is affordable (from memory around
=A34=
00
- 600 for a class 4 DAT drive). But this is no good if you have heaps of
music and multimedia shit. You can easily creap into the 100+ gig range. In
this sceanrio I highly recommend a Snap server. The cool thing about Snap
servers is their low cost, their xplatform compatability, and their 10
minute (yes it's true) setup time.

Infact Snap servers are so user friendly (cheap 'n' easy) that I will soon
get a second. We use one for general storage, just like a file server, and
then will use the second as a nightly backup in a different physical
location to the first. That way, you have  a measure of security in case of
fire and theft. Still, using this set up, a DAT drive is still useful for
doing weekly or perhaps monthly tape backups. A half dozen class 4 tapes
will hold 100 gig - the bitch of it is that you have to change the tapes -
hence once a month may be enough.

HTH

Chris

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Graham P. Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 14 December 2001 15:09
>To: UKHA List (E-mail)
>Subject: [ukha_d] First visit under the barter scheme
>
>
>This is a little late, but I just thought I'd say a public 'thank you
>very much' to Ian who came over on Tuesday night and tackled my home
>network. He has left me with a much improved system with everything
>(PCs, printers, wired and wireless ePODs, DDARs) getting IP addresses
>and Domain Names from the SBS Server through DHCP. Everything also is
>onw correctly set up with WINS so internal names are recognised
>immediately. My server is free of error messages in the event logs and
>everything seems to be noticably quicker for both internal and external
>connections. The return visit for LAN cabling is subject to SWMBO
>approval, but once he has it, I will be round to assist.
>
>There is still stuff that I think needs attention here, in particular I
>am not at all confident with the Exchange Server setup (Paul G are you
>reading this ;-) and I'm sure that there are other things I should be
>using it for, like newsgroups and messaging. I also have Exchange on my
>co-located server and would like advice as to how that might be best
>utilised.
>
>Another area that needs urgent attention is backup, I'm ashamed to say
>that right now I have none. When I had a peer-to-peer network I simply
>copied the neture network drive to another disk every night, but now
>that I have the server things are not so simple. I need to be able to
>back up data files, Exchange, IIS and SQL Server.
>
>As before, anyone who can help will be compensated with anything I can
>offer (....no Paul and Phil, *that* is not on offer!), such as web
>hosting, web design, cabling etc etc.
>
>Regards
>
>Graham
>
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