Dave N5UP

Dave N5UP
Dave monitoring progress during the server migration June 17, 2010

Dell R710 server

Dell R710 server
A technician at our data center adjusts a rack of Dell R710 servers

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Well, we've got even more disk now

Got the 1TB disk installed and running. But I'm fighting with Microsoft's idea of a joke: the new Windows Server Backup. In this day and age you would think that a software company would understand that you DO NOT eliminate features when you introduce a new product that is supposed to improve on the last one. I've been working on this for hours now, and I simply cannot get it to backup one server onto the other server. Frustrating and annoying. It does not have any way of specifying a network location. All backup devices have to be local hard disks.

Anyway, the database backups at least are working, backing the database from one set of RAID 10 disks onto the 1TB backup drive. Next I'll install the backup client that allows my Houston datacenter computer to back up the backups. Confusing? Imagine what it's like sitting here amongst this pile of papers and keyboards and screens.

1 comment:

  1. Give up on Microsoft and switch to Linux. It has everything you need, and features don't disappear.

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