Job,

There are instances when you can stomach running on a shoe-string budget. I cannot be with data backups. It can never be with data backups. Even with a shoe-string budget, contingency comes first. In many organizations, IT Department is never taken seriously. In fact it never exists until there is an IT problem:)
In any setup DATA is the most critical. I'd forego everything else but make sure the DATA is safe - whatever the budget.



On 14 August 2013 15:54, Job Muriuki <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:
What happens if the sysadmin asked for the backup drives but were never availed?
Some run on a shoestring budget and they fire fight when ever problems occur.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
True Lenya and Wash,

But a sysadmin should also have standby Disks in his locker just incase ...

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On 14 August 2013 13:23, Anthony Lenya <tlensya@gmail.com> wrote:
Backup!! Backup!! Backup!! Before you embark on anything


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
You have a backup?? Then you will go through it, but not without downtime!



On 14 August 2013 12:40, charles kungu <charles.kungu@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes they are hot swap bays but problem is I dont have the replacements at the moment because i have to take this ones back  to the supplier first coz they are under warranty.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
If they're hot-swap bays, just pull the drive out of the enclosure and put in a new one - done.

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM, charles kungu <charles.kungu@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a server that has 3 hard disks that have been set up on raid 5, The problem is that 1 hdd has failed and another is showing signs of failing. I would like to replace the 2 failed disks without a downtime on the server, is that possible?

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