mpkapadia
03-02-2003, 09:06 AM
Hi
Has anyone used win2k file replication services as a backup to store the data to secong harddrive.
How well does it work . Assuming both drives are Ides.
Currently what i am doing is manually copying data from drive1 to drive2.
Regards,
mpope
03-02-2003, 12:46 PM
There is a data backup feature integrated into windows 2000 (not sure if that is what you're talking about). Our windows admin uses it along with a couple of custom config files to backup all data to a second drive, and so far it works great! It hardly took him any time either...
Maybe I'll direct him to this post so he can better explain what to do.... :)
mpkapadia
03-02-2003, 03:23 PM
Windows backup feature copies everything to 1 single file , though it seems it could be moved to other place and restored on new server . what i was thinking was in case if this file were to get corrupt i were to lose all data isnt it
LIke on my windowsserver if all is in d:\users and i make backup of this folder and it the backup file does not read then its bad isnt it
2nd thing is that lets say you are backing up a folder of 10 megs the bakup file it creates is slightly more than 10, shouldnt there be some compressed backup format.
What file replication is doing is that whetever its writing in d:\users it will write in e:\users too , if file deleted in d:\users it deletes on e:\users also
Sort of raid setup.
Whati am really interested to hear is that how resource hungry will it be, as the replication happens in realtime.
Since i have not used both options much i will need expert advise that what is best strategy. Pls ask your admin to visit here. we will have his inputs on the same
Regards,
rigor
03-02-2003, 04:03 PM
best strategy i use is tape backup, veritas, if you've ever had to restore a fatal crash (as in all is gone), the IDR iso boot cd and a tape is all you need ;)
It really works (as long as the hardware doesn't change lol).
restoring a wasted nt/2k server is something any admin should have to go through , its quite fun ;) not!
BurtonHost
03-02-2003, 04:57 PM
In my win2k servers I have a RAID-1 mirrored setup. That means if the main drive fails then you pop in another, and then it does the rest of the work to copy the info from the other drive in the array to the new one.
Someone said to me - how much is your time worth in $$$ and I didnt' have an answer, but by paying the extra $$ for the raid card then if the main drive fails you save so much time.
For backups I would also use tape backup - daily backup and then you can restore anything that was deleted say by acciddent.
If you have the raid setup then by all means run ntbackup and then to that drive run a daily backup. I'm not too win2k savvy but that's how I run it at the moment
