I'm a little confused about what you exactly want. Can you restate? It sounds like you want to use a local NAS in the remote office to act as your file server. Sounds like you also want to backup the Exchange server in the remote office to that NAS device. It also sounds like you're considering a backup scheme that replicates the data on the NAS back to your central office. In other words, you'd have local file access that is essentially cached back and HQ. You are considering same for the Exchange servers and are looking for feedback on the idea. Is that about right? _____ From: Eric Lanyon [mailto:ELanyon@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:59 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] NAS Backup/Recovery http://www.MSExchange.org/ On topic, but a bit off topic... Looking at doing a major network-wide upgrade on the servers. I have several remote offices each with a single server with tape backup connected locally and are connected to the corporate office via frame relay. I am going to be replacing those servers to Win2003 and am considering looking at a NAS solution. I am concerned about how Exchange will act. Basically I want to take the server, back it up to a Storage Server via the WAN at the corporate office. So say User A needs a file restored from 5 minutes ago, I can push the change from the Storage Server to the remote server and voila all done. I found a company that will do what I want...I think, NSI Software (Double-Take program). I'm still investigating options and worst-case scenarios...server blows up how do I restore it and Exchange to make it all happy, etc. With this program the Storage Server is supposed to act as the local server so the users won't even notice the outage. I know the initial setup would create tons of traffic, but that'd be on the LAN and it would eliminate the need to having tapes swapped at the remote locations, etc. I am sure that product would be nice for files and such, but not sure about email quite yet. Might need an add-on or separate program to do that part.... Has anyone done this or anything similar? TIA eric ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------