Network Guru question

[Bob Thomas]

Unfortunately, our budget for the IT was HACKED to bits by the town. It was in effort to save manpower. We do have "ways" of playing with numbers but those ways are going fast.

John - I think this IBM server is a "small business" server. I just dug out the specs:

IBM E Server X Series 225
2.5 gb RAM
Server 2003
2 Mirror RAID Drives
CD Rom
Backup: DLT VS80
Veritas 10

It's this bad boy
http://reviews.cnet.com/soho-servers...-30066685.html

Probably need to do some budget figuring here to see what we have to deal with.

Thanks for the info. Going to hit the boss up on Weds

[JohnR]

Bob - then you need to see how you can whittle down the files getting backed up. With less stuff getting backed up - by getting rid of stuff you don't need - the better you will be. Keep in mind I have clients with younger DLT VS80 drives that have either failed, or the tapes are no good (which tells me you have 40GB tapes that are "advertised" to get 80 but as you can see really don't).

Are those the original tapes? Your backups are probably no good if they are the original tapes copied over repeatedly for 5 years....

The "SBS" part is a version of windows Server 2003 that comes with its own Exchange and some other stuff - easier to manage for the non-geek

[Bob Thomas]

Not original tapes. We cycle them out each year.

Going to have to see what else can be whittled down. I think we're pretty much "whittled out" but will have to see.

Thanks for the help. Probably time to upgrade, as much as it hurts