Posted on: July 10th, 2009 by Famous Phil

As you probably know by now, I have a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server.  With any kind of server, a backup and disaster recovery plan is a vital part of any kind of professional hosting.  Hosting email can be quite tricky as it is, but taking network backups was a new road that I’ve never covered in Windows.

First, I have a fairly simple environment set up for my backup.  I have a Linux backup server running samba sitting in Seattle (mthsweb2).  This server has the Windows IP white listed so that only my Windows server can connect to it to map a network share.  For those of you who don’t know what samba is, samba is a daemon in Linux that will allow Windows to naively connect to a Linux server for file sharing.  Samba is a very simple solution for mapping a network drive to Linux in Windows without needing any specialized software such as sftpdrive (not called something else).

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Posted on: June 20th, 2009 by Famous Phil

First I guess I should apologize for not posting anything in the past week here!  I really hate it when I have to ignore my own blog for more important admin business elsewhere.  The good thing is, I always manage to learn a lot of new stuff that I can easily share

Over the past week, I got a new server to host Microsoft Exchange which is a powerful email server from Microsoft.  Before you go all crazy on Microsoft (I know I typically do), Exchange is one of the few excellent products they make.  I am actually very hard pressed to find anything that compares to it that is open source and can easily run on Linux which 99% of  my hosting business up until now has ran off from.  Man, I never thought that I would say that

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