disaster recovery

[beppler at comcast.net]

We have been using a Unitrends DPU5000 since September 1 and works GREAT we are very pleased with the product.
 
Making a SCO Unix Disaster recovery disk does require a shutdown BUT you do it one time and you are done. On the new Windows servers they have a “Hot Metal Backup” this does not require a shutdown and we have used it and it works great!!
 
I have around 30+ servers SCO Unix, WinXP, Win3000, IBM Aix, MSSql, linux. 
ALL work great.
 
Here is the results from a HP server with SCO 5.07 with a GB NIC 
 
Computer.......: cwc01
Backup type....: Incremental [I]
Operator.......: root at l1sp001001dpu01
Catalog file...: /usr/bp/catalog.dir/_4749.lst
 
=================> BKUP BACKUP SUMMARY   S/N: ABG-00 <=================
                        Wed Nov 16 23:18:35 2005
 
      FILES: 13703
      Total DATA: 10.634Gb (Gigabytes)
 
      Elapsed Time:  10 minutes  54 seconds
      Data Transfer Speed: 17475546 bytes/sec   ( 1000.0 Mb/min)
 
Exit Status is 0 
 
 
How much better do you want 1GB/Minute? I currently have Master Backups done every Saturday and Incremental every other night. We have live backups since September 1st.
I can recover any file since Sept 1 in less then 2 minutes!!
 
Works great
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Dan Coutu
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:43 AM
To: Doug Luurs
Cc: filePro
Subject: Re: disaster recovery
 
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.
>  _____  
> 
>Douglas Luurs
>  Systems Programmer
>  Borisch Mfg Corp
> 
>Voice: 616-554-9820 x143
>Fax: 616-554-9180
> 
>           BORISCH
>           Psalms 115:1
> 
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>Thank You.
> 
>  
> 
>>-----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
>> 
>> 
>>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?
>> 
>>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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