RE: First visit under the barter scheme

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Just a thought ...

I know several of us have adsl connections....(sorry Mark;) have any of you
considered complementary back up?

I haven't really needed this up till now but my new business venture would
benefit from it.

Concept would be we make arrangements where x amount of space is available
on each others systems for back up.

It isnt to easy for me to do this right now as I have a NAT
connection...but
I intend changing that in the near future....anyone interested?

Mick




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Langridge [mailto:chrisl@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 December 2001 21:42
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] First visit under the barter scheme
>
>
> 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 £400
> - 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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