tailieunhanh - Disaster Recovery: Backing Up and Restoring

Every MIS or network administrator has a horror story to tell about backing up and restoring systems or data. One organization, where we now manage more than a dozen backup servers, has data processing centers spread all over the United States, and all are inter-connected via a large private wide area network. In mid-1999, a valuable remote Microsoft SQL Server machine just dropped dead. The IT doctor said it had died of exhaustion . . . five years of faithful service and never a day’s vacation. After trying everything to revive it, we instructed the data center’s staff to ship the server back to HQ for repairs | Disaster Recovery Backing Up and Restoring Every MIS or network administrator has a horror story to tell about backing up and restoring systems or data. One organization where we now manage more than a dozen backup servers has data processing centers spread all over the United States and all are inter-connected via a large private wide area network. In mid-1999 a valuable remote Microsoft SQL Server machine just dropped dead. The IT doctor said it had died of exhaustion . . . five years of faithful service and never a day s vacation. After trying everything to revive it we instructed the data center s staff to ship the server back to HQ for repairs. In This Chapter Understanding Backup Practice and Procedure Removable Storage and Media Pools Using the Backup Tools that Come with Windows 2000 The first thing we asked the IT people at the remote office was You ve been doing your backups everyday right Sure thing they replied. Every day for the past five years. They sounded so proud we were overjoyed. Good we will have to rebuild your server from those tapes so send them all to us with the server. To cut a frustrating story short The five years worth of tapes had nada on them not a bit nor a byte. Zilch. We spent two weeks trying to make sense of what was on that SQL Server computer and to rebuild it. We refuse to even guess the cost of that loss. We have another horror story we will later relate but this example should make it clear to you that backup administration a function of disaster recovery is one of the most important IT functions you will have the fortune to be charged with. Backup administrators need to be trained responsible and cool people. They need to be constantly revising and refining their practice and strategy their companies depend on them. 644 Part V 4 Availability Management This chapter serves as an introduction to disaster recovery backup-restore procedures on Windows 2000 networks the Backup-Restore utility that ships with the Windows 2000 .