Dear Edie,

One thing I would certainly do is make sure that I have one or two identical 
hardware boxes as my Networker server.
I have found that the worst thing to disaster recover is your networker server 
itself.

And although there are numerous ways in which Networker helps in this 
department. I think and have tested in a work environment that a restore using 
acronis is impossible to beat in terms of speedy recovery and zero config work 
(provided you make appropriate backups in time of course)

So I would config your system and in the case you stated you needed 5 networker 
servers.
I would buy 7 or 8 identical systems qua hardware.

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,

Frank Terveen
EMC² Certified System Engineer

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