Step 2. Planning network fault tolerance procedures

The workstation hosting the shared folders needs to be properly protected from allnatural disasters ranging from hard-drive failures to floods and fires.

In order to protect the system from a hard-drive failure so that access to the data is available immediately after the hard drive fails (with no delay), what two most commonly used fault tolerance methods would you recommend? (Hint: suggest two different RAID levels).

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Project 4 - 420-GR1-IDE v4-0 Project

Assuming the workstation has been shipped with two identical hard drives, what additional hardware would be necessary to implement each of the two methods?

What additional fault tolerance method would you recommend in order to protect the workstation from the other natural disasters like floods and fires? Does this method protect against hard-drive failures as well? If so, why would you not use itinstead of (as opposed to in addition to) the methods discussed above?

Develop a backup strategy for the workstation assuming that the amount of time it takes to perform backups must be kept to a minimum, but it is not important how long a restore procedure would take in the unlikely event that it would have to be performed. Assume the company operates 5 days a week from Monday to Friday, that a full backup is done every Friday, and that there must be a backup taking place each working day. In the spaces below specify the type of backup that shouldoccur each day.

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