Disaster Recovery

Any advice from your latest Disaster Recovery review?

Just curious if you have any advice from your latest disaster recovery review on what elements deserve particular attention. Frank Lady offers disaster recovery advice on SearchDisasterRecovery, but I'm curious as to whether elements like Swine Flu are playing part in how you sketch out how to...

Criteria to test performance of synchronous replication

Hi, I am working on synchronous replication implementation. Can anybody tell what are the parameters or criterias on which our synchronous replication implementation may be compared with other sync replication implementations? Also, can anybody provide us with any testbed report link?

Should we tell our users we're doing disaster recovery testing?

We want to carry out a DR test of our plan.  For simulation purposes, should we alert our end users that the test is going on, or should we keep it under wraps?

AS/400 - IBMi Managed Hosting - Looking For Service Partner

Can anyone recommend a good Managed Hosting company that has specific experience with the Systemi.  Need to position HA & DR services to clients and would like to find a good partner.  Ideally somewhere in the Midwest.

Disaster recovery

Hi guys, I'm planning to put a DR strategy in place for my firm. I have the option of backing up our data & system volume to an external drive or tape drive. However, I have been having challenges backing up to a tape drive. Do you think external drive is a better option?

Mimix upgrade

Hi, Could someone let me know what is the procedure of mimix upgradation.Please explain in detail.

Disaster recovery plans

What types of disaster recovery procedures do you have in place for your organization? Are there any particular areas that you think need special attention or additional resources?

Disaster Recovery in AS/400 System

What is Disaster recovery in AS/400 system

Restore Exchange to earlier backup delete recent messages in Outlook?

Our Exchange 2003 server recently died and our latest working backup is several months old. We would like to restore to this backup to preserve the contacts and company public folders but we are concerned that doing so will wipe out all the recent messages and appointments in the Outlook clients...

Mirroring from a production environment to a DR environment

I have a production environment and a disaster recovery environment and each of them have two SQL 2005 servers in a cluster. We have two LANs -- the first one is our standard/everything LAN and the second is a Service LAN. We are looking to mirror from our production environment to our DR...

SRC C167280A/C1F7280A

Hi, We are at a DR test site and on the first stage of IPL'ing from the SAVSYS tape, the IPL is still progressing with the SRC - C167280A/C1F7280A. Now are these SRC's quite normal?

Does SRM work with vSphere vCenter server?

Using between a few sites (active/active) and wondering if Site Recovery Manager tool works with vSphere vCenter server? Thank you very much. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

Access rights for Storage Team members

We are having to justify the access rights that our storage team members have to the Windows, VMWare, and Unix servers. Our storage team is also responsible for all backups, restores, and disaster recovery. Can any one provide a best practices or a already compiled list of access rights that...

Data recovery on Windows XP external drive

hi..im using windows XP professional,and i have external hard disk to back up my files..im copying some file to my external hard disk when the computer hangs and I unplug the external disk to the USB of my computer but when i check it again the filenames of the files and folder in the external disk...

Backup of encrypted data to USB device

I'm using Ultimaco encryption software and I'm looking for any software/utility that can read files from an encrypted hard drive and copy the data to a USB device. I need to be able to do this for OS disaster recovery in the event of a crash. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated....

How to set up a disaster recovery (DR) VLAN to replicate data

I am new to disaster recovery (DR) and IT management. I have a production site with Cisco switches, and I'm backing up data to a storage area network (SAN). I have a GB link to a remote office and would like to replicate data to another SAN at the remote location. How do I set up a DR virtual LAN...

How to configure disaster recovery with BrightStor ARCserve Backup

i wanna know how to make disaster recovery to the arcserve backup?

Configuring a disaster recovery plan for Exchange Server 2007

I have disaster recovery plan for my Exchange server in mind, but I like to know if you have any idea how to configure it appropriately. I have a production server running Exchange Server 2007, and I backup with Data Protection Manager 2007 every 15 minutes. I like to have a virtual machine on...

DR for Exchange 2003 in SAN

I have been given a task of setting up Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2003 Infrastructure. We have several Exchange Servers in each of the 2 Sites. Each Site will be a Recovery Center for each other. I'd like to set up a block level Exchange DR between the 2 Sites. All Exchange data are currently...

Copying our disaster recovery database on a SQL Server

We are using log shipping on our SQL Server as our disaster recovery solution. When we want to test our disaster recovey with a test transaction, not production, we need to use the secondary copy. However, we don't want to stop it and lose consistency between disaster recovery and the production...