Re: Alternatives to Iron Mountain

i don't know about all of those, but you should put the ptf's on your HA
system yourself as part of standard system maintenance. not do it when you
fail over.



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The HA process does NOT keep both boxes identical. Think about it. Would

they have the same
- IP addresses
- Same system name
- same WRKRDBDIRE
- same network attributes
- same routing

They also will not have the same vendor keys. These are often tied into
serial number, processor and what not. Many times a vendor will have a
technote that says to omit data area x in library y from your HA software.

Do you really expect a change to WRKRDBDIRE on one system to be propagated

over to the other system? No. User profiles, user libraries and so on,
yes. I don't even expect a HA solution to keep DSPPTF in sync. How would

you expect it to?

Rob Berendt