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re: I have a question about backing up and restoring a server
Posted on 5/12/15 at 8:58 pm to GrammarKnotsi
Posted on 5/12/15 at 8:58 pm to GrammarKnotsi
Grammar, just to answer your points.
If they had come to us 3 months ago saying their storage was getting low, then we would have begun the diskXtender project to utilize their SAN for extra storage space. I was brought into this 2 weeks after they had been dead in the water. Doc see's this as our issue instead of a normal IT issue that IT can take care of with appropriate planning.
As far as him not using all that data at once, that is an absolute certainty. He is making this a requirement because he is tough on vendors.
I still am going to push them to go with the "temporarily cut and paste 500 gigs of images" to a secondary drive and try to use reasoning to let them understand the risk of the other "immediate" solutions.
Final point on migrating to a different server, they are on an older version of our software and if we provide a new server for them it will only come in a much newer version which is not compatible so an even larger headache is in store.
A little to late to tell them "planning is key" i guess.
If they had come to us 3 months ago saying their storage was getting low, then we would have begun the diskXtender project to utilize their SAN for extra storage space. I was brought into this 2 weeks after they had been dead in the water. Doc see's this as our issue instead of a normal IT issue that IT can take care of with appropriate planning.
As far as him not using all that data at once, that is an absolute certainty. He is making this a requirement because he is tough on vendors.
I still am going to push them to go with the "temporarily cut and paste 500 gigs of images" to a secondary drive and try to use reasoning to let them understand the risk of the other "immediate" solutions.
Final point on migrating to a different server, they are on an older version of our software and if we provide a new server for them it will only come in a much newer version which is not compatible so an even larger headache is in store.
A little to late to tell them "planning is key" i guess.
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Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:34 pm to flyAU
quote:This was going to be one of my questions. Your new HP box/app combo is probably Windows Server 2012 and updated app?
Final point on migrating to a different server, they are on an older version of our software and if we provide a new server for them it will only come in a much newer version which is not compatible so an even larger headache is in store.
I had more questions typing a previous response, but the 2 most pertinent would be:
1) What RAID level is in the Dell and how many drives?
2) How much storage would be necessary for a full backup of the Dell and do they have network storage for it?
My reasoning:
Let's say assuming Raid 5 with 3 drives, backup the entire Raid array off the server. Insert 1 or 2 new drives into the Dell. Break up the old array and build a new RAID array with all 4/5 drives. Image backup on the new RAID setup.
This would require off-hours work and IT approval, but as long as you backup the data, if all fails, you can re-set the old array and image the data back.
Side note: App not being able to run in VM environment and not backwards compat? You guys need new developers.
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