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Hi Rob,

That's definitely what we want.  We need the hosting company to be geographically diverse from our primary location (USA - East coast) so taking tapes is definitely not what we want.

My thought right now is to use something like your EMC device to replicate our backed up data to the remote location and then have that data there for restoration in the event of a disaster.  A hot swap is not required so I do not think QuickEDD is something we need to pursue (although a good product, IMO).  I think replication of nightly backups to the other facility with the ability to restore them fairly quickly to resume operations is good at this time.  I'll call that a warm site type of solution.

It sounds like you have hardware (another IBM i) at the other facility though, correct?  That's what I am trying to avoid, if possible via a hosting solution.

Example scenario:

IBM i hosting company allows us to keep an EMC type device at their facility.  We back up locally, it replicates over to them.  We rent/reserve (at a cost) space to allow us to come up on their hosted solution in a DR situation.

What I am not sure about is if we could keep a device at their location, cost of bandwidth to allow replication of backups to that location, cost of reserving DR space, etc.  There may be other ways to get our data to their facility too that would not involve our equipment, if they offer something to allow us to replicate over to them.

I'm for sure on board with your train of thought.  I just need to figure out some of the specifics with someone that does this sort of thing and get some costs/options.

Thanks to all for your feedback so far!

On 5/2/2018 8:47 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
In general you may want to look at something different than the "we'll
rush tapes up to that site" kind of solution.
With our solution we shutdown and run on the other site once a quarter. We
do that when the remote site is unoccupied with no humans inside.
We also do backups at that site so as not to interrupt operations on
"production".


Rob Berendt


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