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| Will Wise 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| Hello good people of the Internet.
I am talking with a potential customer about coming up with a backup
solution, and I need your valuable advice because I've never supported
this type of service.
He owns and runs a graphics design firm, and if his workstation is
down for more than a day then he'd be in deep doo-doo with his
clients. It's a deadline kind of environment. Potential problems
could range anywhere from an accidentally deleted file, a corrupted
registry, or an entire hard drive failure.
What do you people recommend I do for him?
From my inexperienced position, I'm thinking about using either
Windows XP backup, third party backup software, or maybe even a RAID
card and disk. I'm new to it all, anyhow, so I have no idea what I'm
doing yet.
I humbly bow before your knowledge. Thank you over and over for your
help!
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| www.JimWilliamson.net 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| willwise@mail.utexas.edu (Will Wise) wrote:
>Hello good people of the Internet.
>
>I am talking with a potential customer about coming up with a backup
>solution, and I need your valuable advice because I've never supported
>this type of service.
>
>He owns and runs a graphics design firm, and if his workstation is
>down for more than a day then he'd be in deep doo-doo with his
>clients. It's a deadline kind of environment. Potential problems
>could range anywhere from an accidentally deleted file, a corrupted
>registry, or an entire hard drive failure.
>
>What do you people recommend I do for him?
>
>From my inexperienced position, I'm thinking about using either
>Windows XP backup, third party backup software, or maybe even a RAID
>card and disk. I'm new to it all, anyhow, so I have no idea what I'm
>doing yet.
All depends - what cost would he put on an hour of downtime near a
deadline? If it's big enough he may look at dual work computers (main
system and another that is ready for use NOW should the main fail) with
file storage outside of the computer (two SnapServer 1100's running with
the Server-to-Server backup snapshots). That should care for much of the
hardware failures (need a spare hub too). Now for issues of deleted files
- MSBackup perhaps to do version / time backups. The SnapServer backup
process may do this as well. In any case, again, the client needs to
define how much risk he's willing to accept vs the costs involved.
I was just with a client that addressed this issue (we're doing a forklift
revamp of the office equipment). Currently there is no redundancy and data
protection is nil. When he asked regarding if the server were to fail I
said - how much downtime can you afford? Can you work if the system was
down for a day - answer - yes - we could make do for a day. 24 hours is a
generous amount of time, in his configuration, to recover from a problem.
Not much redundancy is needed (but we'd certainly take it if the cost was
small enough).
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| You would want a 3rd party backup program such as Retrospect (see
www.dantz.com).
Backup to external USB/Firewire drives.
Keep only 1 such drive connected at any time, if at all, when not doing a
backup.
Swap the drives so you can always go back to the previous one if the current
backup drive gets corrupted by, say, a power failure. Make sure you use a
good UPS.
You can automate the backup schedule, or you can manually start the backup
at will.
When doing critical projects, backup more than once per day, AND copy/backup
critical projects to CD or DVD media.
I often do backups when I am out running errands or eating a meal or
watching the idiot box, or some other time I am away from the computer. It
is better to run a backup when apps are not explicitly running running.
--
http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"Will Wise" <willwise@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:23a8b1d9.0404061442.66cb04e3@posting.google.com...
> Hello good people of the Internet.
>
> I am talking with a potential customer about coming up with a backup
> solution, and I need your valuable advice because I've never supported
> this type of service.
>
> He owns and runs a graphics design firm, and if his workstation is
> down for more than a day then he'd be in deep doo-doo with his
> clients. It's a deadline kind of environment. Potential problems
> could range anywhere from an accidentally deleted file, a corrupted
> registry, or an entire hard drive failure.
>
> What do you people recommend I do for him?
>
> From my inexperienced position, I'm thinking about using either
> Windows XP backup, third party backup software, or maybe even a RAID
> card and disk. I'm new to it all, anyhow, so I have no idea what I'm
> doing yet.
>
> I humbly bow before your knowledge. Thank you over and over for your
> help!
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| Miguy 2004-05-23, 12:15 pm |
| See also Tapeware from Yosemite Technologies www.yosemitetech.com
which is certified for Windows 2003.
Cheers
Miguy
"Will Wise" <willwise@mail.utexas.edu> a écrit dans le message de
news:23a8b1d9.0404061442.66cb04e3@posting.google.com...
> Hello good people of the Internet.
>
> I am talking with a potential customer about coming up with a backup
> solution, and I need your valuable advice because I've never supported
> this type of service.
>
> He owns and runs a graphics design firm, and if his workstation is
> down for more than a day then he'd be in deep doo-doo with his
> clients. It's a deadline kind of environment. Potential problems
> could range anywhere from an accidentally deleted file, a corrupted
> registry, or an entire hard drive failure.
>
> What do you people recommend I do for him?
>
> From my inexperienced position, I'm thinking about using either
> Windows XP backup, third party backup software, or maybe even a RAID
> card and disk. I'm new to it all, anyhow, so I have no idea what I'm
> doing yet.
>
> I humbly bow before your knowledge. Thank you over and over for your
> help!
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| Will Wise 2004-05-23, 12:15 pm |
| Thanks, everybody. I will look into these suggestions and let you
know how it goes. I love learning new things, especially when I'm
getting paid!
willwise@mail.utexas.edu (Will Wise) wrote in message news:<23a8b1d9.0404061442.66cb04e3@posting.google.com>...
> Hello good people of the Internet.
>
> I am talking with a potential customer about coming up with a backup
> solution, and I need your valuable advice because I've never supported
> this type of service.
>
> He owns and runs a graphics design firm, and if his workstation is
> down for more than a day then he'd be in deep doo-doo with his
> clients. It's a deadline kind of environment. Potential problems
> could range anywhere from an accidentally deleted file, a corrupted
> registry, or an entire hard drive failure.
>
> What do you people recommend I do for him?
>
> From my inexperienced position, I'm thinking about using either
> Windows XP backup, third party backup software, or maybe even a RAID
> card and disk. I'm new to it all, anyhow, so I have no idea what I'm
> doing yet.
>
> I humbly bow before your knowledge. Thank you over and over for your
> help!
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