RE: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country

Yes we ARE using Vision (Mimix) to replicate for HA.

However we do not want to refresh to TEST real-time, rather monthly.

I think if we did real-time, then the target files of replication are always locked by Mimix. Not good for a test environment.

If we suspend data set replication for 30 days, I would think that PROD performance would suffer when trying to catch up. Plus keeping journal entries so long would be expensive.

Are these issues avoidable using Mimix?



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 11:37 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country

Out of curiosity, why don't you get a piece of high availability software?
One of my clients is using Vision, and in order to stem the onslaught of
save, ftp, and restore requests, they worked a deal with Vision to put the
replication software on each machine. It's not the full blown scenario for
failover protection, just what is needed to replicate various libraries on
an ad hoc basis.



Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: replicate PROD iseries box to distant TEST box cross-country

We are separating our PROD & TEST boxes geographically.

There is approx 30 gig of data & objects to copy.

People in my organization are convinced that tape is the only method given
the data volume. But tape is cumbersome; takes several days to transport,
tapes go missing, must be logged out, logged-in, etc.

What other strategies should be considered?


Would the following work well (FTP instead of tape transport)?

1) PROD: SAVLIB to *SAVF

2) ARP-ZIP to compress *SAVF

3) FTP from iseries PROD box to distant TEST box

4) RSTLIB to TEST box



Is it possible that 30 gig could be moved in a few hours? Or is that
unrealistic.


Any suggestions such as further details or better ideas?

Thanks!


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