Automated backup/mirroring

[Guest DW]

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, 5 users

 

I am running a SCSI RAID system with internal 15k U320 hard drives. I

recently added an eSata RAID box with mirrored hard drives. At the end of

each day, I manually copy the SCSI data to the eSata system. However, I

would prefer to have the SCSI data continuously copied to the eSata system

Does Windows 2003 have that capability? If not, can anyone suggest a

reliable 3rd party software package that will accomplish my objective,

hopefully without taking a performance hit?

[Guest Mike]

Re: Automated backup/mirroring

 

robocopy /MIR

 

robocopy is your friend.

 

"DW" <dwess@wess.com> wrote in message

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> Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, 5 users

>

> I am running a SCSI RAID system with internal 15k U320 hard drives. I

> recently added an eSata RAID box with mirrored hard drives. At the end of

> each day, I manually copy the SCSI data to the eSata system. However, I

> would prefer to have the SCSI data continuously copied to the eSata system

> Does Windows 2003 have that capability? If not, can anyone suggest a

> reliable 3rd party software package that will accomplish my objective,

> hopefully without taking a performance hit?

>

[Guest Anthony]

Re: Automated backup/mirroring

 

If you really mean "continuously" as distinct from "periodically" then you

need something that is watching the file system for changes.

Volume shadow copy does that on a server, but across different servers you

need a replication product like DFSR, or Replication Exec.

Of course, if you make an error you can't restore from backup unless you

have made periodic snapshots as well,

Anthony, http://www.airdesk.com

 

 

"DW" <dwess@wess.com> wrote in message

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> Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, 5 users

>

> I am running a SCSI RAID system with internal 15k U320 hard drives. I

> recently added an eSata RAID box with mirrored hard drives. At the end of

> each day, I manually copy the SCSI data to the eSata system. However, I

> would prefer to have the SCSI data continuously copied to the eSata system

> Does Windows 2003 have that capability? If not, can anyone suggest a

> reliable 3rd party software package that will accomplish my objective,

> hopefully without taking a performance hit?

>