MiMiX Replication

MiMix replication between Production and Disaster Recovery Server is very slow, what are the parameters that decide the rate of transfer of packets between these servers. Is at Network level or at MiMix settings. Software/Hardware used: MiMiX Version 7 , OS V6R1, Power 6 i-series server

How to implement a secondry DR site with HSRP

My client wants to implement a secondry DR site using only with Cisco gear. Can anyone suggest best possible solutions or guide me to get the best possible books on this subject. many thanks in advance Software/Hardware used: CIsco , Secondry DR, HSRP

Stand alone system being recovered to an LPAR

When we do a D/R recovery from our stand alone 820 to a an LPAR on 870 we get an error that the OS keys is invalid. Have been told that when we load the LPA there is a step that will eliminate this issues. Does any know hat it is? Software/Hardware used: IBM 9406/820

Open IT Forum: How do you prepare your data center for severe weather?

Every season has its share of weather threats, and we want to know how you prepare for them. The east coast is gearing up for Hurricane Irene's arrival, and we were wondering what steps you were taking (if any) to make sure your data center doesn't see much (or any) downtime. What unique...

Facility and disaster recovery

Our global company is interested in outsourcing the disaster recovery for our manufacturing facilities.  For example, if there is a fire at a plant, we need a point person who is the expert at getting general contractor to get crews in to clean up debris, hire electricians to repair electrical,...

Granting systems access in a DR situation

What are some best practices for managing access rights during recovery situations. The question is particularly directed towards additional personnel or vendors that may need access to certain system functions, but only during a DR situation. How is that handled best?

Disaster Recovery planning

Has anyone built a Mobile Command Trailer? We are trying to develop a Telecommunications Disaster Recovery Plan in the case of a natural disaster. Any idea's would be greatly appreciated.

Windows 7 backup without software purchase

How can I backup my entire Windows 7 system for disaster recovery without buying any software?

Free IT Book: Network Security Technologies and Solutions

From the back of the book: "A comprehensive reference to the most cutting-edge security products and methodologies available to networking professionals today. Understand and implement current, state-of-the-art network security technologies to ensure secure communications through the network...

Using online backups for corporate disaster recovery capability

Has anyone got any experience of using (3rd party supplied) online backups as a way of creating a DR capability.  If they have, what potential risks were faced and mitigated?  

Backing up a Joomla website without plugin

How can we backup a Joomla website without a plugin? We need the db and the files associated with it for disaster recovery.

Creating a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for servers

We need to create a disaster recovery plan for each of our servers. They are all the same machine type and we have images of each. How can we create a comprehensive disaster recovery plan? What needs to go into it?

Active directory 2003 Full backup procedures.

We need to run a full AD backup. This will be for disaster recovery so it needs to be comprehensive and work from scratch.

Disaster recovery for SQL 2005

How can we setup a disaster recovery sql server? We are running SQL 2005 on a 2003 box. We need a real time exact replica we can switch to?

SQL server files/programs vanished

have domain server and sql server on network,  each backs each other up. users cannot access files on sql and some things seems to be missing on domain as well.  Older restore won't work, it states that files unavailable. I backed up everything I could on ext. hd's and am attempting to restore...

disaster recovery exchange 2003

How to recover the Exchange 2003 server on the new hardware Software/Hardware used: HP DLl380

Mirroring SQL Server 2008 to a disaster recovery machine twice a day

I want to mirror my SQL Server 2008 to a disaster recovery machine two times a day. Is there any free software to do this on a running SQL Server? If not, are there any cheap alternatives? Can scripts be run to copy the files over while SQL is running? Can I use shadow copy for this?

Appropriate disaster recovery for Windows server 2003?

What's an appropriate disaster recovery plan for Windows Server 2003? What steps do I need to take to be able to rebuild my server from only tape backups? Do I need to reinstall the OS or can I simply restore? What programs do you use? Software/Hardware used: Windows server 2003

What is the proper way to fully backup my Exchange 2007 server so I can rebuild it in case of a disaster?

We are preparing our disaster recovery plan for our Exchange 2007. We have bought a identical machine to the first and now we need to create a plan to back it up and restore it quickly.

Active directory restore

Hi, I am trying to host our active directory in Cloud as a disaster recovery site. I have created same activedirectory in cloud server. now i would like to move the users, groups, and policies to cloud server. Could any body explain the process of migrating the ad. Regards Vij Software/Hardware...