CIS 157 Lesson 12 - Backing Up

CIS 157 Lesson 12 - Backing Up

Like all good things Hard Drives are no exception in the market of “Fail.”  Now that the ugly truth has yet again reared it’s ugly head lets go ahead and deliberate some basic backup concepts and backup tools. These are not the tools in your granddaddy’s shed either.

 The absolute main three principal criterions to contemplate when beholding the capacity for a storage device to function as a backup device are 1.  Capacity, 2. Speed and 3. Cost. Depending on the type of backup device selected for the servers, backup software can be a convenience if not an absolute necessity. It is extremely crucial that tests are conducted on the restore process protocols on a episodic basis.  This is to ensure that you can recover any lost data that is lost. The most common types of backup jobs are full, differential and incremental.

 

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Lesson 11 - Monitoring Servers

Lesson 11 - Monitoring Servers

The importance of monitoring servers cannot be stressed enough. Server 2008 provides quite a bit of  of intrinsic information about both proprietary and third party computer hardware, operating systems and applications.

 

The ability to monitor the server makes it less difficult to ascertain just what is occuring at any given moment inside the server.

 

This brings us to just,

What is a Windows Server 2008 Monitor?

A Windows® Server 2008 monitor is a tool that allows administrators to monitor a Windows Server 2008 network with a wide range of technologies. A Windows Server 2008 monitor reports on the availability of networked Windows Server 2008 systems by measuring usage and traffic. A Windows Server 2008 monitor solution can help administrators reduce expenses by avoiding network outages, optimizing connections, and increasing efficiency to better meet service level agreements (SLAs).

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