Full Backup on a server.

[Roberto Pareja]

We have a Compaq Proliant 380 with redundancy on power
supply, RAM, CPU, network card and disk (using mirror).
The thing is the machine is so powerful that the
administration is thinking of configuring the server with
Windows 2000 Server, and installing all the following
services/programs in this same machine:
Become our Domain Controller for the network.
Become the repository for all user's private backups.
Become a FTP Server, an external DNS Server, install
Exchange 2000 and become our EMAIL Server and our WEB
server. Besides it has some ORACLE programs and some
data.
My concern is that if for some reason, something fails
(mainly with the software) and the machine crashes, we
will be without any program, service or external
communications (FTP, WEB, EMAIL) until everything is
solved.
What is the best recommendation to fully and completely
backup EVERYTHING on this machine? I have found
recommendations but a program for exchange, an utility
for the active directory, the ntbackup from Windows 2000
for the system state, etc. etc.
Is there one solution to backup EVERYTHING ? (it doesn't
matter how much time consumes as long as I do not have to
worry for some applications or for some data....)
Thanks for your help,
Roberto.

 

[Spinner]

Your admins are just asking for trouble.
It is not a good idea to have all of that on one server, regardless how
powerful it is.
You are going to have multiple avanues of attack on the server, and with
thoses
server apps installed it will be wide open to the net.

That being said, Varitas backup Exec should be able to handle it.

 

[Peter Choppin]

You need more than one server. Windows 2000 Server replicates Active
Directory to all Domain Controlers. For this reason alone, you really
should have AT LEAST one more DC.