Access rights for Storage Team members
We are having to justify the access rights that our storage team members have to the Windows, VMWare, and Unix servers. Our storage team is also responsible for all backups, restores, and disaster recovery. Can any one provide a best practices or a already compiled list of access rights that they have identified a storage [...]

Answer Question   |  April 8, 2009  2:04 AM
Access Rights, Disaster Recovery, SAN, Storage Engineer, Storage management, User authentication

Data recovery on Windows XP external drive
hi..im using windows XP professional,and i have external hard disk to back up my files..im copying some file to my external hard disk when the computer hangs and I unplug the external disk to the USB of my computer but when i check it again the filenames of the files and folder in the external [...]

Answer Question   |  September 1, 2010  3:49 AM
Backup & recovery, Disaster Recovery, Recovery, USB hard drives, Windows XP

Backup of encrypted data to USB device
I’m using Ultimaco encryption software and I’m looking for any software/utility that can read files from an encrypted hard drive and copy the data to a USB device. I need to be able to do this for OS disaster recovery in the event of a crash. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated. Thank you. Moderator [...]

Answer Question   |  June 9, 2009  3:59 PM
Backup, Data Encryption, Disaster Recovery, Encrypted files, Encryption, USB devices, Utimaco

How to set up a disaster recovery (DR) VLAN to replicate data
I am new to disaster recovery (DR) and IT management. I have a production site with Cisco switches, and I’m backing up data to a storage area network (SAN). I have a GB link to a remote office and would like to replicate data to another SAN at the remote location. How do I set [...]

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2009  3:32 PM
Cisco switches, Data Replication, Disaster management, Disaster planning, Disaster Recovery, it management, Network management, Networking, Remote office/branch offices, Remote offices, Storage Area Networks, Storage back-ups, Virtual LAN, VLAN

How to configure disaster recovery with BrightStor ARCserve Backup
i wanna know how to make disaster recovery to the arcserve backup?

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  8:41 AM
ARCserve Backup 12, Backup, BrightStor ARCserve Backup 12, Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery planning

Configuring a disaster recovery plan for Exchange Server 2007
I have disaster recovery plan for my Exchange server in mind, but I like to know if you have any idea how to configure it appropriately. I have a production server running Exchange Server 2007, and I backup with Data Protection Manager 2007 every 15 minutes. I like to have a virtual machine on a [...]

Answer Question   |  May 1, 2012  6:23 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2007, Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server disaster recovery

DR for Exchange 2003 in SAN
I have been given a task of setting up Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2003 Infrastructure. We have several Exchange Servers in each of the 2 Sites. Each Site will be a Recovery Center for each other. I’d like to set up a block level Exchange DR between the 2 Sites. All Exchange data are currently [...]

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2009  5:57 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, SAN

Copying our disaster recovery database on a SQL Server
We are using log shipping on our SQL Server as our disaster recovery solution. When we want to test our disaster recovey with a test transaction, not production, we need to use the secondary copy. However, we don’t want to stop it and lose consistency between disaster recovery and the production copy. How can we [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  4:56 PM
Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery (DR) testing, Disaster Recovery Database, Disaster recovery planning, Log Shipping, SQL Server, SQL Server databases

Restore deleted 3rd party applications with F11 System Recovery?
Does F11 restore delete 3rd party applications?

Answer Question   |  February 17, 2009  3:53 AM
Backup & recovery, Data Recovery, Disaster Recovery, F11 System Recovery Partition

Disaster Recovery
Hello there This is Faisal Rafiq, kindly send me the best link of Windows Disaster Recovery articles. Thanks.

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2009  11:22 AM
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

Windows 2003 – computers at different locations with the same ip
‘ve been tasked designing a plan to allow users to use their credentials on the servers at our diaster recovery site. I’m a unix guy, and am swimming way past the ropes. Here is the situation: We have a datacenter for our production servers. It is a Windows 2003 level domain, with all Windows Server [...]

Answer Question   |  February 13, 2009  3:43 PM
Active Directory, Data center planning, Disaster Recovery, DNS, NAT, RHEL, Windows Server 2003

Monitoring and management of real time RPO and RTO
Does it is practically possible to monitor and manage real time RPO and RTO for Disaster recovery environment?

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2009  12:56 PM
Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery and business continuity, Disaster recovery services, Disaster recovery software, Recovery Point Objective, Recovery Time Objective

Is anyone using Dell MessageOne for email continuity and archiving?
I am tasked with gathering information and comparing Dell’s MessageOne archiving and email continuity service, and compare it with our current Symantec Enterprise Vault. This is fairly difficult, because MessageOne is still fairly new, and it will be impossible to find someone that has used both. So, at this point, I’m just trying to determine [...]

Answer Question   |  February 2, 2009  12:32 AM
Business Continuity, Dell MessageOne, Disaster Recovery, Email archiving, Symantec Enterprise Vault

Configure User Profile after server formatting
Hi, I have 90 machine in company Last Two Incidence Server has to be formated after that install ad ,dns and all But after that every user profile has to reconfigure bze of shareing and network problem any type of solution to after the formating server no need to reconfigure the user profile Thanks

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2008  9:05 AM
Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Server installation, User profiles, Windows Server 2003

How organizations deal with network design for disaster recovery
I am looking for some information about how organizations deal with network design for disaster recovery. Specifically, my issue is about DNS domains, and whether to have a single network with a redundant warm site in a single domain shared by production processing, requiring unique IP addresses and server names in the secondary site, and [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2008  10:53 PM
Disaster Recovery, DNS, Network design, Networking, Organizations, Testing

Replicating SAN to DR Site
We are looking to build a warm DR site across town. How are other companies managing to duplicate their data in a reasonable time to another location? We are looking to copy around 150 GB per day. We don’t need up to the minute data, up to the hour or two is acceptable.

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2008  4:21 PM
Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery planning, DR, SAN, WAN

Using NTBACKUP to recover from system failure in Exchange 2003
I’m working for small company and is documenting and testing a disaster recovery plan for all my servers. The problem I keep running into is finding a plan that works using NTBACKUP to restore my exchange 2003 running on Windows server to its original state if system completely failed. I done quite a bit of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 5, 2011  5:10 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange Storage Group, NTBackup

To have unique server names and IP addresses in secondary dedicated warm site, or not?
I’m not sure which is the lesser of two evils. To go with recovery to a secondary site that emulates production (including exact domains, server names and IP addresses), or to have sedcondary site systems that have unique IP addresses and server names all on the same domain. Anyone know of resources available that discuss [...]

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2008  3:54 PM
Disaster Recovery, IP addressing, Network design

I set up a second Exchange server on a single domain, but installed AD on it before finding out this is not advised.
I set up a second Exchange server on a single domain, but installed AD on it before finding out this is not advised. Can you tell me what problems it causes and whether or not I can just use DCPROMO to remove the AD component without causing problems. I ultimately need to have redundant copies [...]

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  1:05 PM
Active Directory, DCPROMO, Disaster Recovery, Exchange Server

Data Security
I do all my business from my laptop, my question is what is the best way to restore my files and folders along with my OS incase of a virus or machine failure? Thank you. ~Akhtar

Answer Question   |  June 20, 2008  6:17 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Disaster Recovery, Restore