Re: Disaster recovery - Server replication tools

[jim () tuna openans co uk]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Luis Fernandez wrote:

>         Hello...
>
>         I am developing several disaster recovery plans for windows
> enviroments; the solutions are based in a big server with a virtual
> server (with Virtual Server 2005) for each real server, and I am
> searching for a good software for doing the replication from each server
> to it's equivalent vitrual machine, so we should be able of use this
> virtual servers in case of a failure in some of the real server. Now I
> am searching for a good software for doing this replication; I would
> like replicate the servers (incremental, not full) several times in the
> same day, so, could anybody with experience in this issues recomend any
> good server replication software?
>
>         Thanks for your time!

For a cheap solution try rsync...

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

It's free and it will happily do incremental replication. I'm not sure how 
you would implement this on windows other than using an rsync server.

Regards,
Jim Halfpenny

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