Windows Storage Server 2003?

[Ric_]

My AX100 just arrived!

[ICTNUT]

We are about to start usiong WSS 2003 as I have just taken delivery of a 3TB NAS from Dell

 

The deal they gave us pretty much undercut all others.

 

Will let you know in the next day or 3 how it goes.

[tarquel]

How much was it?

 

I could only dream of such storage lol

 

N.

[ICTNUT]

@tarquel : We were in the process of decommisioning two server that were 7 years old and on thier last legs.

 

I approached the education deartment at Dell and told them I have a budget of £5k and wanted 2 beefy servers as the were going to be domaincontrollers and "possibly a NAS server" budget permitting.

 

Anyhow 2 days later I gets a quote for the following:

 

2 x Poweredge 1850's, Dual 4Ghz Xeon Processors, 2 GB Mem, 73GB 15k SCSI, Dual 1GB NICs, Dual PSU, Remote Management Card

1 x PV745 3TB NAS with Windows Storage Server and Hardware Raid

 

All with 4 hour on site response for the grand price of £4300 +VAT

 

Naturally we said yes to it ;-)

[Netman]

.... Or if 5k is a little rich for your School, I can highly recommend the NAS servers from Iomega. We use a 200d (Cost about 1k) with WSS 2003.

Lovely bit of kit - particularly the Volume Shadowing which has saved us tons of work in the last 6 months....

[ICTNUT]

I agree with NetMan, the VSS (Volume Shadow Service) is a god send.

 

Teachers and some students tend to overright files accidentally and often ask for a restore to be done, this could take up to an hour or more in some cases.

 

VSS will take a copy files and create backups of them at predefined intervals of a set period of time.

 

If an overight occurs you can simply suggest that the user find the file in question, right clicks and selects properties, if VSS for shared folders has been setup correctly you will se a previous versions tab.

 

All they have to do at this point is select the version prior to the overight and hey presto recovered in less than five minutes.

 

Of course you don't need storage server 2003 for this as any 2003 server will do it however it is already applied to any share you make so provided all users files are stored centrally, well I think you get the picture....

 

For more info see this --> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/docs/ShadowCopiesSharedFolders.swf