RE: Backups in HA environments

Not sure about the BRMS networking cross-site for dupes, someone else
would have to speak to that, but you could do a custom boogie just
saving whatever you need to savefiles off the HA system and sending over
the pipe and doing a SAVSAVFDTA off primary to tape.  Not pretty, but it
would do what you're needing.  Unless it's lots and lots of libs.
Virtual tape on V5R4 would help in that case, but if it's only one or
two libs with only 2.5 GB of data, I'm not sure if it'd be worth the
headache at this point.


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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why wouldn't you just switch 
to ?the remote site if the primary went bad?  Why is the assumption 
that if the primary went, the secondary would as well?  Or does your 
network still have a single point of failure at the primary site?  
Seems a bit extreme to replicate data, back up off the HA box, and then

get that backed-up data physically back to the primary site if you had 
to "run away."

Like I said, I must be missing something reeeeeealy easy on this one.
Can someone clue me in?  How far away are the sites?  Perhaps that'll 
help me.

I didn't say it was rational, just the requirements that our boss has
laid out. The HA site is 90 miles away, the third disaster recovery site
is 2000 miles. It is possible that a communications failure or power
failure affecting the HA site would also effect the primary site.


Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express
903-885-1283  ext. 479
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