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Windows 2003 file server redundancy

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by mjs2506

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Hi
Im hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.
I have been asked to set up a file server for my company with as much redundancy as possible, but they dont want to purchase anything new.
I am planning a raid 5 set up and using near line storage and backup exec 10d.(Thats all been purchased already) This seems to cover disk failure pretty well.
What are my options(excluding clustering - too expensive) for server redundancy?

Thanks

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by scott_heath

The only way to have server redundancy is to have another server. But I can't see how that would be useful. If you have a good server from Dell\HP with a 4hr contract and you are running RAID-5 and you have backups you should be OK. I mean, the MB could always fail, so I guess you could buy another one to have on hand, but other than that you should be OK.

by mjs2506

I will check what service contract they have, I didnt think about that.
Will also look at getting a spare motherboard.
Thanks

by dcleghorn

If you cannot throw money at a redundant solution a good way to build resilince into your solution.

Here is a list to get things going:

Redundant NICs with NIC teaming
Redundant switches
RAID 5 or higher Server Local Storage (as you discussed)
Resilient Domain Infrastructure
Resilient DNS Infrastructure
MOM or Nagios Reporting
Good Backups
DR Environment
Good System Documentation
Business Continuity / DR Plan
More than one system expert
Core Hours Support plan
On-Call Support plan

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