ShareThisFor the second time in three years I've survived a catastrophic hardware failure with a Lotus Domino server. Early Wednesday morning as I was trying to resurrect the crashed server I prayed that my backup plan had worked. In June I described how I use Rsync and some scripts to backup our Domino server. My prayers were answered on Wednesday morning as we rebuilt the Domino server from the backups. I had to put Domino on an extra Windows 2003 server temporarily and already it's been more work. I  used WinSCP which is a great GUI utility for moving files to and from a Linux server. For now I have to manually "down" the server, back it up with Windows backup utility and then restart the server. If I was going to be staying on Windows for a longer period of time I might invest in a tape drive, but I got word today that our server's problem was a defective main board and it's been fixed and will be back in service soon.  Thanks to Mike Brown, one of the technicians at Great Lakes Electronics in nearby Buffalo, New York for the quick turnaround.  It'll be good to have our Domino server back on Red Hat 5.