Article: Small shops tackle DR on a budget
Wessel described Exchange as 'great at clustering within a building, but not great at redundancy.' The Celtics discovered that Exchange 2003 does not offer a replication feature. After haranguing Microsoft, they were advised to check out Double-Take replication from NSI Software.
The Celtics have about a terabyte (TB) of data between an Exchange Server and an Active Directory file server to store e-mail, team statistics, financial and ticketing data. The organization had always backed up to tape, but realized that restoring from off-site tapes was taking too long. 'Recovering from tape in the event of a disaster would be a many-day process,' Wessel said."
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