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Damn, slep for 11 hours, and I have to go to sleep again in about 11 hours.
I'll get my hours fixed at some point.
 
Another weekend went by that was a single party. Now back to real life.
 
Much fun. Still, it's what we have to do - we can't not test or if we have a real disaster and cannot recover, the company will suffer big time.
 
Oh, sure, I can totally understand that.

Gotta be prepared.  We are in the midst of setting up an off-site 'vault' for replication of our backup..  Pretty cool.
 
Albie said:
What a week I have. Three days doing a disaster recovery test.
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That actually sounds really interesting to me. Can you go over what you guys will do in more detail, or is that top secret?
 
LooseCannon said:
That actually sounds really interesting to me. Can you go over what you guys will do in more detail, or is that top secret?
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I can give some sort of detail but I mainly focus on the iSeries side - rather than the Wintel stuff. I guess you understand the concept of DR, so what sort of stuff would you want to hear about? Is it the method of recovery or what is recovered or something else?

This time, however, we are recovering for the first time the exchange server and the Linux box. So day 2 is different to other tests.

Wasted CLV said:
Gotta be prepared.  We are in the midst of setting up an off-site 'vault' for replication of our backup..  Pretty cool.
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What we have been thinking about for some time is keeping a backup device off-site and run a fibre to it to allow backups to stay well away from the computer room. We have backups running every day but only do these tapes get taken off-site each weekday morning. So, what was backed up last Friday, for example, was taken off-site this morning. Bit of a draw back, as you can see, but we have told the business that we will recover the systems from the tapes off-site - and they could be a few days old. And they accept it. On the whole, the core data we have is what comes back from our retail outlets which is then processed on our systems at HO. If we get really stuck, we can simply re-poll that data from the stores.
 
That's how ours had been up til this month. We did daily tapes and moved them to different locations. This new system is nice-on site digital back-up also replicated off-site. We will still do weekly tapes, and maybe monthly.
 
Backing up to disk is the way forward, I think. When disks are as cheap as they are, and the recovery of a file is fast as well. The problem is our main system is the iSeries and disks on that are not cheap. Neither is the hardware. We have to back that up to tape - and probably always will.
 
Ah, gotcha.  I'm under the impression that, here, they(we) are wanting to 'virtualize' the servers, and create a SAN.  I am trying to learn/understand all that, but it seems to make sense.
 
Escape from Alcatraz. Awesome.



But Shawshank Redemption was better, even though I found out that it's pretty much based on this movie.
 
Albie said:
Backing up to disk is the way forward, I think. When disks are as cheap as they are, and the recovery of a file is fast as well. The problem is our main system is the iSeries and disks on that are not cheap. Neither is the hardware. We have to back that up to tape - and probably always will.
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When you say to tape, do you mean zip drives? Why the fuck would a company still use that old technology? External harddrives and blank DVD's are quite inexpensive.
 
One of our tapes can hold around 800GB of info. They are re-usable. And easy to track. Perfect backup, durable. Just not as easy to access. A digital setup is better, but to get 'server quality' its more expensive.
 
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Amidst the dying bodies, blood runs everywhere!

The figure stands expressionless, impassive and alone

Unmoved by this victory, and the seeeeeeeds of death he's soooooown!!!
 
Pretty brutal game though. Multiplayer is one of the best around although I haven't played in like 15 months or something.
 
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