Re: Doing remote journals to the cloud

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clarification:  they are not ftp'ed offsite, but ftp'ed to 2 PC's in the
office.  We do a full system save 5 days a week at 3am (because we can).  So
by the next morning those journals on those PC's are no longer necessary.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:48 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Remote journalling just for that to get up to the moment backups of
> transactions is an interesting idea.
>
> I know that Jeff Crosby changes his journal receivers on the hour, saves
> the old ones and ftp's them offsite.  Not as up to the moment but beats
> losing a whole days transactions.
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
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> Date:   07/25/2011 05:27 PM
> Subject:        RE: Doing remote journals to the cloud
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> My thought was to dual journal local and remote. In the case of a disaster
> that destroyed all data - fix the local system, restore last backup, copy
> remote journals local and apply them. Not looking for a hot swap site,
> just a place to keep journals so as not to lose a day's work if this were
> to happen. We backup nightly and take that off-site both database and
> journals but journals are on the same system so if the disaster where to
> happen at the end of the next work day I would lose that days
> transactions.
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> We use Mimix.
>
> I haven't heard if any of the offsite backup places like Vault/400 allow
> you to remote journal to their locations.
>
> I know of one person on this list who is offering cloud services for the
> i.  Maybe that could be done that way.  Unless your transactions are
> rather small, wouldn't that take a pretty good pipe?
>
> Are your plans to restore on your home server, move the remote journal
> changes back and then apply them?  Or restore on the backup, Apply the
> remote changes on the backup and then save and send the data back to
> primary?
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
> To:     "midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   07/25/2011 12:40 PM
> Subject:        Doing remote journals to the cloud
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> Does anyone on this list know if and 3rd party or IBM is talking about an
> offering for iSeries customers to do remote journaling to the cloud?  Keep
>
> one copy local and send another to a remote server farm. That would give
> is almost up to the second recovery capabilities in case of disaster. We
> use the last backup and the journals form the cloud.
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