How to prevent your Network Server from failing

The entire world relies on Servers these days. The internet is held together by a large quantity of Servers. Web sites are stored on Web Servers. Company documents and databases are stored on Servers. All emails whether corporate emails or personal email accounts such as Gmail or yahoo are stored on Servers. So regardless if we are aware of it, the world in this common age relies on Servers for some of the most common and crucial daily operations.

When Servers fail it’s usually a nightmare and it’s usually a costly and complex process for data recovery specialists to perform data retrieval. One option is to perform an internet search for Dell PowerEdge Recovery or HP Server Recovery or any other brand for which you have a failed Server. To prevent having to go through this painful experience frequent backups are recommended as best preventive measures. In addition one should consider in what for an environment a Server is located. They usually are sensitive to heat and need to run in a cool environment. This is not much of a concern for large enterprises since their Servers are usually located in temperature controlled data centers. However for small business this can be more of a challenge, since they often do not have access to a data center and room temperatures can affect not only the performance of the Servers, but also lead to fatal malfunctions and crashes. When experiencing early stages of malfunctions such as slow performance or alert notifications on a Dell or HP Server, contacting the appropriate support departments would be a good idea. If an HP ProLiant Server has already failed and can no longer be accessed, they will usually recommend for you to contact a HP Server Recovery Specialist. If however the Server is still accessible Dell support will be able to take a look at system event logs and smart alerts notifications in order to identify if the problem is a hard drive failure or possibly a motherboard issue and or in some cases a software failure caused by a corruption of the Windows operating system or a device driver. These are the most common failure types that one will encounter, when dealing with Server failures and malfunctions.

Preventative measures include a frequent backup which can be performed either to a tape backup drive such as DLT and LTO tape formats or to disk. In addition a power surge and battery backup should be present in order to shield the server from spikes of electricity and to protect the server from temporary power lose. When one follows these simple tips, a good and crucial first line of defense has been formed against Server failures. The second step includes frequent monitoring of the Server and verifying that the scheduled backups are actually being performed. It occurs too often that a backup to tape or to disk stops it’s scheduled routine and goes unnoticed until it’s too late. Therefore keeping an eye on it, or having this outsourced are priceless investments that should be considered if one does not enjoy downtime and complex data recovery services such as performed during a Dell PowerEdge Recovery. If one does encounter this predicament it’s advisable to research a data recovery company before making a hasty selection. There are plenty of companies advertising data recovery services, but only a few that actually have the experience and knowledge to repetitively perform successful data recovery on multi disk raid servers.