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As I begin writing this its 10:40am and already today I’ve restored a server from a failed hard drive. Our client called around 10am saying the network was down and the server was making a clicking sound. Its the call all techies dread, but we were prepared - this was a Nitix Server running IDB (intelligent disk backup).
One of the joys of Nitix is the core OS resides on a flash module called a DOM, meaning once the offending drive was removed and the server rebooted, the network was back up and we had full admin access to the server.
All the drives in a Mark I Nitix server are in removable cartridges, the primary drive(s) and backup IDBs are interchangeable. Upon checking the recent IDB was in good shape with current backups (hourly increments too), we had the client take the oldest IDB cartridge and replace the failed primary drive with it.
Not even thirty minutes later all data was restored. Nitix with IDB is truly the greatest server backup we’ve ever seen - our clients are back at work and I didn’t even have to get out of my PJs.
The Author: Kevin Selkowitz
About: Kevin Selkowitz is the founder and lead consultant for Selkowitz Technology, a Seattle-area small business systems consulting company. We focus on the four major technology needs of small businesses - phone systems, phone and internet service, servers/network infrastructure, and business applications.
This entry was posted by Kevin Selkowitz, on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 am and is filed under Servers and Networking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response on the right, or trackback from your own site.
