Disaster Recovery

[mrdenny]

I'm looking to see what software products folks out there are using (besides log shipping) for off side distaster recovery solutions? I'm looking for hot standby as well as cold standby solutions.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)

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[Catadmin]

Denny,

As far as cold standby goes, I used to work for Iron Mountain, a national records retention facility. Their Off-Site Data Protection division stores backup tapes in a climate controlled facility and they have drivers who regularly rotate the backup tapes for you. Additionally, they have a department (can't remember if it's in the same division or not) that can hook up your servers via T1, or better, and back them up directly to their servers. Their disaster recovery time (getting tapes back to you or restoring from their servers to yours) is pretty awesome. They were able to get many of the companies who lost offices in the 9/11 disaster back up and running in different locations in a matter of hours.

There is also a local facility called Peak10 in Jacksonville, FL (they have a few out of state offices, but I don't know where) who actually store your machine in a climate controlled room and do all sorts of maintenance type stuff and let you come in and do what you need to. They have major backup generators in case of hurricanes, etc. and multiple circuits incase one goes down.

As far as hot recovery, I haven't worked with SANs a lot, though some collegues of mine use them along with clusers and hot swappable disks. I don't know what brands they might have that are good. LiveVault has some solutions (They have a hilarious promo video at

http://www.backuptrauma.com

starring John Cleese and Michael Dorn), but I've never actually used them for anything.

I'm sorry I can't help you further.



Catadmin - MCDBA, MCSA
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[mrdenny]

I guess I didn't specify what we are looking for.

We have two sites. Where I'm at in California and one in Texas. We are setting up our DR systems in Texas now. We need to be able to switch over to the Texas systems as quickly as possible so we are looking at our options for getting the data from CA to TX in real time.

I'm farmiler with Iron Mountain, we currently use them for our off site storage.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)

http://www.mrdenny.com

(Not quite so old any more.)