[windows2000] Re: Your uptimes
- From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:58:34 -0500
I didn't used to be...
Here is the way it went down:
* it was fiscal month end
* the CFO needed to perform some monthly input of sensitive figures before
our payroll tax transfer
* The router that feeds accounting failed
* we had no backup equipment
* a permanent replacement was 4 days away
* he h ad to truck over to our department and use our "spare" (read:
"filled-with-junk") cubical to do his entry
* he asked me what it would take to make sure this never happened again
* I exaggerated and told him about $1500 in backup equipment (1 hub, 1
switch, and an extra hard drive and 4 NIC's to turn my test workstation into
an instant router)
* he agreed it would be worth it and signed a requisition
* I spent a week or so building and rebuilding that machine as an RRAS
server, and backing up the RRAS config for each one.
Now, if a hub or switch goes down, I have a quick replacement.
If a router goes down, I can have this machine ghosted and running as a
router in less than 15 minutes.
Now if I could get him to sign off on an extra HARDWARE router, I would be
all set... I'd be redundant to the gills!
I hope this helps a little,
Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:15 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Your uptimes
>From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Properly set up hub/switches/routers should never go down. And they
>are all cheap enough that it is worth having one of each sitting
>around for backup.
Well, if they never go down, why do you need a backup? *grin* All I can say
is that your budget must be better than mine as I'm forced to pretty much
use equipment until it falls apart in a nasty way.
Chris Berry
compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates
"Live dangerously, overclock your servers."
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