On 15 Mar 2005 at 14:28, linuxgirlie wrote:
This is the kind of thing I detest. Nothing should make a network go down this badly, unless >the staff aren't capable of making proper diagnosis of ailments, or aren't capable of >implementing solutions. In a worse case scenario we could rebuild all our servers in a week, recover just the documents off backup, and probably have everything back up and running by >the middle of the next week, and that's assuming network issues were so serious as to be >irreprable without a clean install.
A week?!? How many servers do you have? I have 6 and it would take me no more than a day (maybe less than that) to re-install from scratch the whole lot. Not sure about work though, as I have never had to do it, but the systems would be up and running.
Jo
We have a 3 or 4 main Novell servers, and several other small servers doing various little bits, but none of those are mission critical as it were, and would be ignored (disconnected possibly) in the case of major network problems. I'm amazed if you can manage to recreate all your servers, recreat all users, log in rights, individual folder rights, user groups, and their file rights, printers, print queues, print accounting and so on and so forth in a day, unless you're running a much smaller network. We have around 1300~1400 users on ours, and I was literally talking worst case scenario (server system backups being useless, but assuming documents were backed up successfully) Sure, between the three of us here we could install Novell and get it running on all our servers in the space of a day, but getting everything else setup takes time, and allowing a few hours for the NDS trees to sync properly. I'm not certain it would take a week, but that's what we feel comfortable in saying is our minimum. Like you, we've never had to do it, thus we make conservative estimates. Our usual comment to staff is that its more like 2 weeks to ensure everything is setup properly, though that's just to give us plenty of breathing space. We always give out conservative estimates, that way if we get things working quicker people believe that you've done your hardest to get things going as soon as possible (which we do), and if you have problems you haven't got anyone breathing down your neck with such urgency. ----- Paul Graydon Network Technician Haywards Heath College http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281 "Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner