I'm in need of some storage advice for my daily backups. Right now I use an dell desktop with 2 1tb HD's attached with Acronis running the backups for 10 win 7 pc's. I have Acronis set up to alternate between the 2 hard drive's for some redundancy. Now that my budget allows for some upgrades I'm...
Hi! looking to get the best Firewall for a Small business. We have about 55 workstations 1 SBS2003 (but will be upgrading to 2008 soon). I looked at Sonic & juniper firewalls but there is so many out there. right now we are running soothwall and my boss dont like the fact that its open source...
Hi! We have one workstation running SQL 2005 that the database got corrupt somewhere down the road, We have daily backups but unfortunately the corruption was on the backups as well. Im new to SQL and did some research online to look for best practices for daily,weekly & monthly maintenance and...
"If you have services exposed like RWW, etc...you'll want to maintain your Microsoft Updates to keep the server better protected" We do have RWW running and I do keep up with my updates. Is there a place where I could go to see if there is any known issues with an update? Reason why I'm asking...
I'm new to the IT field and I'm in charge of taking care of a Microsoft SBS 2003 w/ about 45-50 workstations on it. I know about the basics Defrag Drives,Patches & Updates,Disk cleanup, is there anything else I could do to ensure a sooth running server?
Is there a master check list of...
Hello I'm new to disaster recovery and bought Acronis to back up my SBS and 20 workstations. My question is that I want to reduce the load on the server and was thinking of buying a PC to install the management console and have all of the backups stored on that PC what would you recommend for...
What is it you're running at work now? Smoothwall express 2.0
How large is your network? About 50 workstations
How big is the internet pipe? I'm sorry I'm new to this are you talking about my connection? If so I'm running fiber from the DMCI Broadband
Do you have any VPN needs? I have about 4...
I'm looking to upgrade my firewall as I'm running a smoothwall right now and I dont want to run a open source here at work. I would like to get a hardware firewall as I'm new to networking I really dont know what one to get. Is it true that hardware is better then software?
Thanks for your time,
Hi! Running Smoothwall express 2.0 and new to the Smoothwall and was wondering if there is a way to monitor attacks on the network? If smoothwall can't what software can? I would like to get daily reports and notification of an attack. Thanks for your time