IBM really needs to fix this issue. Put in a Design Change Request to allow for online backups like you can do with Windows. We do full (bare metal) backups of our windows machines all the time, no downtime required.
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From: Bradley Stone [mailto:bvstone@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Back ups with High Availability Web Server
Here's a question I have a customer interested in.
They have a web application that they make available to people during normal business hours (gov't entity). It's basically looking up old land records, court cases, etc. Scanned and redacted documents.
They now what to make this available to anyone. You would pay for 24 hour access (w/ CC), then so much per page of each document you want to save to PDF.
The issue they are having is because the number of documents is so large, the weekly system save they do takes about 18 hours. They do daily backups that saves only things that have changed, and takes about 2 hours.
They are trying to figure out the best way to do these weekly system saves and still give the customer a good experience. For example, if they sign up at saturday at 1am for 24 hours and then backups start for 18 hours, there's trouble. So they're trying to find the best balance between availability with the safety of the full system backup.
I said since they are doing the saves every night, maybe they could push their system save to once a month. Then set up a schedule so that if a user purchased 24 hours close to a backup time, they are warned and their time extends past the backup.
Any ideas? I'm sure others have dealt with this before. Thanks!
Brad
www.bvstools.com
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