disaster recovery

[Dan Coutu]

I've used the Unitrends BackupPro software product and while it does do 
the same thing as the DPU-5000 (in particular the disaster recovery 
capability) the value of that is somewhat limited.

I say this because you have to shutdown the system and boot off a 
floppy/CD in order to a special purpose disaster recovery backup. This 
is not a process that can be automated! A person has to be there, during 
non-working hours, in order to do the entire operation. Ugh.

We switched to Backup Edge and are much happier. Every full backup of 
the system IS a disaster recovery backup, no shutdown and special 
booting required.

The one down side is that Backup Edge doesn't provide a way to readily 
backup Windows boxes.

Dan

Doug Luurs wrote:

>I just sent a long winded email to Richard basically saying to
>look at a company called UNITRENDS.  We just purchased a DPU-5000
>as our Disaster Recovery unit.  This unit will backup EVERYTHING
>You can think of (SCO/Linux/Windows/SOLARIS/ Too many to list).
>
>It also has something called 'Bare Metal'.  This will take a server
>straight out of the box, and restore completely (to the last backups)
>within 20-40 minutes (Depends on the size of course).  No OS/Appls
>install.  
>
>Right now .. The only thing we are having problems with is the SNAP
>Servers,
>and that is just a permission problem.  But it even backs those up 
>(Once configured right).
>
>Just my 2 cents.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
>>[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
>>Of Richard D. Williams
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:06 PM
>>To: filePro
>>Subject: OT: disaster recovery
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>>In a Red Hat Enterprise environment, what would be the best disaster 
>>recovery configuration?  Money is no object.
>>
>>Duplicate server?
>>
>>Rsync?
>>
>>Edge Backup and Recovery?
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>>How can you reduce the size of the data loss window between 
>>backups or 
>>rsync?
>>
>>Will rsync work when users are updating records?
>>
>>Is there a way  to make sure files are not corrupted?
>>
>>I am looking for any good ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Richard D. Williams
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