“Strange... B-)” ? ...as in blood brother?
Anyway, I am concerned with the time it would take me to bring a new machine online, restore data, etc. If this happened off-hours I could get things going again by the time people came back to work. However, if it were to crash at 9:35 am on a busy Tuesday morning, my life would be hell until the network was back up.
I would not loose any data as I have redundant cron job backups to DLT, and a backup server w/SCSI RAID5 hot-swap, ....and Yes, I have extra drives on the shelf.
"UPS - remove the reliance on the power company" - Well yes, you could say we have that part covered. We are a systems integrator of solar electric power systems and we have the server room powered by three independent power sources, which provide clean, perfect sign-wave, ultra redundant power!
As far as splitting up the services up among multiple boxes - the whole point of SME is a simple, all in one, low cost, powerful solution for a small company. Each individual service does not get hammered very hard resource wise, certainly not enough to warrant multiple boxes, etc..
Anyway, I either need an active mirror or a machine on the shelf that I can grab, hook up the KVM, Net, and Power, …hit the on switch and I’m done.
.nate