I am currently trying to come up with Disaster Recovery Plan for our 4 offices (one main and three small sattelite). We are a Novell shop and my boss doesn’t really have much of a budget to do it. So, to go on the ‘budget’, I came up with idea to place ‘backup’ servers at each office (just an old PC with large enough HDD), do a plain xcopy from main server to ‘backup’, which will also hold a copy of NDS database. That’s for the case of main server failure. For event of site’s failure, I will becopying data to one of the off-site ‘backup’ servers. So, if say Site1 goes down, we go and use Site2’s ‘backup’ server that would have our data on it, as well as NDS DB for authentication.
Do you think this plan would cover all I need, as my boss is trying to push me to also have a tape backup of the ‘backup’ server and rotate those tapes between sites. He says that virus could destroy both servers. I think he’s overcomplicating simple process. What do you think? Besides, I am trying to get rid of tape backups all together, as I don’t have manpower to support them in satellite offices and they are not very reliable either.
Thanking everyone for the input you may provide.