Like any other database, Exchange needs a little TLC if you want to recover from any downtime.
Databases store the most valuable information for the businesses you work with and they’re the trickiest systems to back up; some of the largest technology companies in the world have got database backup badly wrong. Losing that data can have serious consequences for the business, to say nothing of the embarrassment quotient for you. Here we explain the essentials of backing up and introduce some specialist tools.
There are three types of storage you can provide to your customers: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networking (SAN). What you choose will affect the cost, the solution and the levels of support and services you can offer.
Setting up SANmelody to create your own storage fabric
When you install the operating system on the storage server do not format the disks you will use for storage, just initialise them. The storage software will take care of everything else.
Over the last 20 years we have seen the cost of hardware and software plummet. For the most part, smaller companies can now run the same computing solutions as large companies.
Systems such as Exchange Server are closely entwined with Windows Active Directory, so customers can experience problems even if the mail server itself is still functioning correctly.
If your best client were to lose their mail server and the emails on it, how crippling would that be? Most businesses both large and small depend on email. If a company relies on email, you need to have the tools and techniques ready to solve their problems for the day disaster strikes.
Disks fail, and RAID arrays need rebuilding. Be prepared for the worst – and keep your clients’ data safe.

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