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Ohio Networking Experts LLC designs, installs and repairs
computer networks for businesses and residential
clients throughout central Ohio.
Our clients include insurance agencies and brokerages;
real estate developers and management companies; manufacturing,
legal, financial and service industries; churches and other
non-profit entities; and home users.
We would like to include YOU, too.
Please let us earn your trust. Our focus is on helping
you. Period.
Just a tip...
Does your server have a tape drive? If so, when was the last time you cleaned it? YES! THEY NEED TO BE CLEANED! If you don't have one, you should immediately purchase a cleaning cartridge for your specific tape device.
Most manufacturers recommend cleaning a drive after every 8 to 12 hours of use. If your backup takes 2 hours to run, and it runs Monday through Friday, you should probably clean at least once each week.
Most newer tape drives will recognize a cleaning cartridge when you insert it and will start to clean itself automatically. Older tape drives may require starting a cleaning cycle manually through the tape backup software.
Just a tip...
Are you monitoring your tape backups? Or are you just swapping
tapes and hoping the backups are running correctly?
Don't believe that since the tape popped out that your
backup was successful...check the activity log of your backup
software every day.
Don't stop there. Once a month (or more often), run a restore
from a tape to a temporary directory to not only test your
backup, but to stay familiar with how to perform a restore!
Just a tip...
Does your server have mirrored hard drives, or other hard drive redundancy? Or is is just a single hard drive that will simply crash your server when it fails?
Backing up your data to tapes or external hard drives is critical for data recovery, but it doesn't address the issue of data accessibility.
How long will your server be down if the hard drive crashes? How much money could you lose by not having access to the data on the server?
With mirrored hard drives, also called RAID-1, or similar technologies such as RAID-5, your server copies it's data to MORE than one drive within the server. This allows for one of the hard drives to fail while minimizing the effect on data availability.
With a hardware-based RAID solution, server downtime is eliminated. All modern server operating systems support software-based RAID, but may require a reboot of the server when a drive fails.
Ohio Networking Experts will not sell or recommend any server without at least mirrored hard drives.
Call us to schedule a free site visit with a network engineer and find out if your data is at risk!
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