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Veritas's Intelligent Disaster Recovery

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by mattsdad

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I manage two small Win2000 networks. Both companies live and die by their data and neither can afford considerable downtime if a disaster should occur. I am considering recommending to both the Veritas IDR software as a means of shortening down time and adding another layer of protection should a catastrophe occur.

Has anyone seen it in action and if so what do they think?

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by hberkhoff

Yes, I've seen it work. Installation/configuration takes a lot of time because you have to make bootdisks for each server. When this is done you have to make sure your backups are 100% (no open files etc...). In case of a failure you take the neededtape and boot the server with the bootdisks. After tis you either connect to the local tapestreamer of the remote Backup Exec Server to restore all the data from tape. After the restore you can boot the server and you are up and running. When you have windows 2000 you have to make sure your active directory is in sync, windows nt 4.0 works fine. Maybe before you purchase the software you ask for a demo cd from Veritas with all their software (free) to test it on a test environment. Be sure to install also the Open File Option with the IDR option. I am very impressed with this option, and I have seen it work. But remember!!!!! GOOD BACKUPS!!!

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