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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7585)5/24/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
It seems to me that unless your needs are very elaborate and high level (24/7 total fault tolerance and redundancy) then one would be best served by KISS (keep it simple stupid) If you are really dead set on having a realtime, constant backup/mirror of your current system, why not just buy another disk and enable mirroring (RAID 1) at the system level? It is very effective and operates at the system level not relying on separate software to run. Granted it is not as effective in scheduling and file selection, but it works and nothing offers as good of protection against a drive going down. The data is written simultaneously to both drives.

Agreed. Of equal importance to drive failure is user failure..ie install a driver and NT goes belly up. That is one reason we are looking for a 'delayed mirroring' implementation. If the mirror is scheduled then one may be able to avoid the write of a bad file/configuration to the mirror. Something like the seven second delay the networks use..gives them time to use bleeps.

I agree with maintaining a simple system. The concept of maintaining a 'delayed mirror' of the C drive is simple. The question is/can the implementation be simple? A scheduled DI would work although a directly bootable drive is preferable.

Zeuspaul
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