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I agree about the value of the IDB in the Lotus Foundations Server, however I think there needs to be a bit more.
You make the point that DR can be facilitated by taking an IDB cartridge off site, however that limits your Recover Point Objective to being the date you last took the cartridge offsite. This will be OK for some, but not others.
The simple addition of a cron job to rsync the contents of the IDB to a NAS drive somewhere on the network, or offsite if desired, adds an additional level of safety. The cron job could run daily, or even hourly !
AFAIK the replacement for NitixVault is not out yet, but that would be the proper addition.
Gareth
I agree that taking an IDB cartridge off-site is not the perfect solution. However, if it is done weekly, in case of disaster, you’re never more than 1 week behind.
I’m not familiar with NitixVault so I should research that a bit more. Regarding using an rsync cron job, I think that this is a great idea. My only reservations are that a business would have to have a server or PC running continuously off-site in order for rsync to run successfully. This might work well for a larger small business with a branch office where the two locations are linked together via a VPN or another type of secure Internet connection. However, for smaller businesses with no branch office it may be overly complex to link the owner’s home via the Internet, configure the routers to allow for a connection via rsync, and then have a PC running 24 hours a day for the rsync to run regularly. It could become a bear to administer.
As you said, a weekly off-site disaster recovery backup would be good for some, but not everyone. However, for many businesses it would definitely be a good start to have any kind of disaster recovery backup at all and Lotus Foundations IDB gives them an easy way to do this with just the extra expense of one or more IDB drive cartridges.
Let’s face it, IBM Foundations is just killer but it must be the best kept secret out there. Once people find out about this I think it will be the end of Microsoft SBS.
I agree with Gareth, IBM are great at keeping things like this a secret while silly companies like Microsoft market their software to people! How crazy is that!!
I live in New Zealand where Foundations Start would cover 90% of the business. Add to that Linux desktops with Symphony and you have Mail, IM, Productivity apps, Shares, DNS, Security, Back up etc etc all covered at a fraction of the cost of an MS solution. So yes thank goodness IBM keep it a secret of everyon might want it!
We’re a large organisation by NZ standards so it wouldn’t suit us, but the fact we’re migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange at great expense for little gain, shows where IBM is dropping the ball
IBM recently released Rescue Server for Foundations. This provides the ability to automate an offsite copy of your idb backup. It is configured just like any other backup.
Dave,
Good point and thanks for your response. We were also aware of this new feature in the latest version of Lotus Foundations and should have added an update about this when it came out. It does an additional dimension to the Lotus Foundations portfolio so that customers can have the added comfort that backups are also available off-site automatically. Since restores can sometimes be very slow over the Internet for large files, it is win-win scenario to have both the IDB backup drive and the Rescue option running.
Reed