Hi, i am currently using server 2008 Ent edition, the server is being used a terminal server, it is not part of any Active Directory nor does it host one. currently i am backing up the server by using windows backup but its making huge backups on a daily base which is frankly eating away my resources. we have a second identical machine which can be used as a Mirror, and by that i mean exact same mirror down to the last byte, so is it possible to put them on lan and have the primary copy everything, its setup, files, user profiles...everything to the Secondary machine on a daily base like a live mirror or raid.. this is so that 1 machine dies, people can just change ip and connect to the other one i have been searching for this quite sometimes and google just shows me result fo AD mirroring or sql server mirror but nothing like what i need. appreciate your help regards Abid

I am afraid that this idea is not good one. Reason is that if there is an error on one server, the errorneous state is replicated. If you need high availability solution, use cluster technology. For help join the cluster forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/threads Even if you have cluster you should backup. Change your plans and do full backup at the end of week, month, etc and daily increamental backup. Your bacjup media should be stored within 10minutes walk (or similar - according to the disaster recovery plan) Regards Milos

hi Milos thanks for your reply, clustering would be out of the quesiton... i am not a pro at server management so i will just go with the imcremental backup. i check the GUI and it doesnt offer much option and i am not good at CLI, can you help me with a command which would make a incremental backup everyday to an ft server in say ftp://192.168.1.171 thanks

I would divide the task into several tasks: 1. Step by step guide is here for backup http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770266(WS.10).aspx 2. For FTP use scheduled script with one line command containing command file ftp -s:Command_file Command file contains somethisng like open 192.168.1.171 administrator my_password binary cd deposit_folder put my_backup quit close Please consult internet for exact syntax.