Re: System backup in a 24/7 environment.

Ash,

In a message dated 98-06-25 16:40:00 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
> If you are truly a 24x7 shop and cannot go down AT ALL, an option to 
>  consider would be a mirroring system, eg. Lakeviews MIMIX or Vision 
>  Solutions OMS. This is an expensive solution and there may be other 
>  methods but this provides a mirrored copy of your data on a second 
>  system. Both systems are kept in sync. so when you need to IPL one or 
>  apply ptfs or releases, you switch over to the secondary machine. With 
>  the above two technologies, this switch over is almost real time and can 
>  be made very slick and seamless. 
<<snip>>

But my instance was too cheap to purchase the automated switching equipment
for Vision (which ain't cheap), so changeover is only for catastrophic
failures (ie., the 530 burns to the ground or is at ground zero of a nuclear
detonation -- either case, the "backup" system will probably be damaged as
well).  Many hospitals and emergency services organizations cannot afford it
either.  Couldn't we have a "one box" solution like other platforms provide?
At a bare minimum, licensing fees should be waived for "high availability"
boxes, IMO...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand
well." -- H.T. Leslie
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