You really need to develop a backup and recovery strategy for your severs. I find that in MOST cases, restoring a server OS is time consuming and unreliable. So in MOST cases, i find it more effective to restore by doing a clean OS install and restoring config files and/or licenses for services (and of course any data such as shares or mailstores). This simplifies the backup process because only config files and data need to be backed up, not a live OS. Let me emphasize again, this works in SOME but NOT ALL situations. You really need to handle each server as a separate and unique case. But putting a restore process down on paper will help you pick a backup strategy, and thus, a backup solution.
Peter Beninate
Systems Engineer
Agilex
Technologies, Inc.
I'm new to the list, please forgive me if this has been asked and answered!
Our HP Tape backup failed, it can no longer read-write to tape. I was thinking a faster method would be to use TimeMachine as a server grade backup.
Wondering about the reliability, rotation of media (two separate drives) etc.
Thoughts?
