But that's the point behind the DR box of the "same" size. It doesn't
matter if it takes you a week to do PTF's. Your company can run
comfortably on the DR box anyway. When the new machine is ready, your
schedule some down time for the switch over and replicate your data back
to production machine.
Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi
Young i Professionals
http://www.youngiprofessionals.com
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Re: Alternatives to Iron Mountain
Good point on the vendor keys and new hardware required. They're tough
machines but a fire enough to require a fail over, and damage the tapes,
will probably trash the machine.
Actually, should you have to touch routings or anything when you fail
over? Couldn't that be controlled by your DNS? For example,
GDISYS1, GDISYS2 are primary and HA. But everyone connects to GDISYS,
which the DNS controls. Flushing DNS cache and whatnot becomes a concern.
So maybe you do have to manipulate to really guarantee.
Yes, you have to keep ptf's at the same level, or reasonably close. But
again, if you try to install the new machine from DVD and not use any
tapes won't it take you quite some additional time to sync back up the
ptf's?
Rob Berendt
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