MoFo and Disaster Recovery August 24, 2004 Bruce Friedman Infrastructure Manager
Attorney Expectation April 2003 – should never be down for more than thirty minutes Managing Partner January 2004 – should never be down more than five minutes Managing Partner after LAN outage
Challenges for Continuality 24 Global Exchange servers Runaway Disk Space §2 GB limit on individual mailbox size §100+% annual growth of stores §Over 2 terabytes of information stores §One message store over 280 GBs Backup and Restore Management (tapes)
Short Outage Recovery Plan Message Ones EMS service Web-based service Users retain their MoFo address Daily sync for contact, distribution lists and calendar data syncs back to MoFo after event Activate by user, group, server or firm-wide EMS Activation Status on our Remote Access Portal
Longer Outage Recovery Plan Activate EMS Call for Quick Ship Servers from HP to designated MoFo site Restore from tape
Future Strategy Phase I – Storage Management §Reduce stores through archiving - KVS deployment in progress §Reduce server count through consolidation § stores on SAN Phase 2 - Replication §Real time host based tool in place for Document Management System using DoubleTake §Replicate using SAN based replication tools to backup locations
Archiving Purchased KVS Purchased EMC Centera storage appliances §SF and NY locations §Replication between appliances Currently socializing archiving policies §Archive over 6 months old §Retention of 5 years §Ability to delete from archive Move to Filesurf during retention period Firm deployment in the fall
Server Consolidation Exchange consolidation is part of a longer term project for overall server consolidation SAN storage for Exchange stores Regional data centers Wait and see if Exchange 2003 & Outlook 2003 (client caching) facilitates consolidation
Policy 2gb limit on Exchange mailbox size. Items older than 3 months in sent mail folder are moved to deleted mail folder Purge deleted mail folder after 7 days §Recoverable for up to 14 days 25mb limit for PDF attachments 15mb limit for all other attachments