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October 7, 2002 at 02:37 AM
jakomeit

Disaster Preparedness

by jakomeit . Updated 23 years, 7 months ago

I am looking at options to minimize our downtime. Right now, our file and print server is about 16 months old. It has 7 hard drives running a raid 5 array. We had a hardware failure this summer and the part was sent overnight to us, but we were down for about 20 hours by the time I replaced the part. I want to minimize our downtime to less than an hour if something like this were to happen again so I basically came up with 2 options, buy another server with the exact config so I can swap the hard drives (which I can?t find the same server anywhere), or implement server clustering. Can you think of any other options I might have? Server clustering involves getting w2k advanced server on top of hardware and that will about triple my costs. Any other suggestions you have would be appreciated!

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