What can we do to get our server "mirrored" to another server? As well as off-site?

I think a quick answer would be a 3rd party software.

One day, I came across Marathon Technologies website.  I don't use their product but I found that interresting what they can do.

I don't know all the details, but maybe it could solve your problem.

Here's the link:
http://www.marathontechnologies.com/fault_tolerant_windows_servers.html

What you're talking about has the potential to be a large topic, but it can be easily solved. In larger companies, you would consider a Clustered environment, but this is expensive and requires two servers running Windows Server Enterprise Edition.

What I would suggest is you follow one of two routes:

1. You can make use of DFS Replication (Microsoft Distributed File System Replication, a Windows Server feature) on one server in-house, and one server elsewhere, to replicate data between the servers. You'd need a site-to-site VPN, preferably hardware VPN-based between two routers, in order for the two servers to be connected and communicable. For best performance and features you will be best installing this in an Active Directory domain.

2. You can alternatively buy into a product like DoubleTake (http://www.doubletake.com), which is a third-party solution which you can use for replication of data between the two servers.

In either scenario, you will need Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition at the minimum, and obviously the server hardware to run this upon, and appropriate networking hardware to create the site-to-site VPN between the office and external location.

-Matt
-tigermatt

Hey Matt,

I was looking at doubletake, the DFS i believe was the other i was trying to find.  Is it difficult to set up DFS between two in-house windows servers?

_T

thank you