[windows2000] Re: File replication
- From: "Joe Shonk" <JShonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:19:24 -0800
A few points... RAID 0 doesn't give you any fault tolerance.. Just a
perfomance boost.
Second, RAID doesn't protect the integrity of your data. Only from a hardware
failure. If a program trashes a file, that file will be corrupted on both
mirrored drives.
It sounds like you want to call in the National Guard to kill a rat problem.
If your worried about your data, I would suggest backing it up. Windows 2000
Server comes with NTBackup. NTBackup can be scheduled and it can backup files
to another server (flat-file). This also allows you to backup the system state.
Another alternative is to use Robocopy to copy (or mirror) the Data drive on
your server.
If your still that parianoid, there are backup systems, external hard-drives
(up to 200GB now), external storage-media, one-button online backups, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray at home [mailto:listray@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 1/18/2003 5:56 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [windows2000] File replication
Hi list,
I have a server at home with RAID 0 running W2K Server. That server is
my domain controller, file server, SQL server, Exchange server, IIS
server, and everything else. It works fine, since it's just me and my
girlfriend using it. The RAID is built in to the Iwill motherboard, not
an external controller. The motherboard is messed up, I've determined,
and I can no longer boot the machine at all. I have another computer
with onboard RAID, but that's my personal computer. I run RAID1, I just
bought most of the stuff in it, and I don't want to give it up. So what
I'm thinking about doing is installing W2K Server on two other computers
I have, neither of which has RAID. But since I had a hard drive catch
on fire once and I lost all my files, I'm too paranoid to not have some
sort of fail-safe system in place. I believe that with W2K Server, I
can setup file replication between two servers. True? I would feel
fine if I had one server in my room and another on a different floor at
the opposite end of the house, and the directories that I select were
constantly synched with one another. Do I need W2K Advanced Server for
this?
So basically I'm just wondering if someone can tell me if I can do this.
If I cannot do this without third party software or by buying W2K
Advanced Server, I'll just go get a new motherboard. :]
Thanks a lot,
Ray at home
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