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 Disaster Recovery Site using SAN disk replication
Disaster recovery planning, Replication software, SAN architecture
We are setting up a Disaster Recovery Site using SAN disk replication, for all our databases including Oracle; A uniform recovery solution for all IT applications. The Oracle Database will be replicated in the DR site SAN. Appreciate if you could enlighten on pitfalls? Is it a safe solution?

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ASKED: October 29, 2009  1:50 PM
UPDATED: November 2, 2009  10:18 PM
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I have a client that uses a similar setup with SQL Server. They've yet to test it but they like what they've got thus far. Just make sure you've done a <a href="http://securityonwheels.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-business-impact-analysis-template.html">business impact analysis</a> and are focusing on the right things before spending money and effort on it.
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If you are using a reputable vendors synchronous replication, the only potential pitfall would be to make sure you have all of the database LUNs in a consistency group. This will guard against rolling failures corrupting your copy.

If it is asynch, things are a lot more complicated.

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