RE: 24/7 questions:

[ORiordan_Paudie@xxxxxxx]

Alan,

We are using EMC enterprise storage for our backup and recovery stragegy

SRDF options to mirror to an off site location virtually up to any distance

Also for backups we are using EMC storage & software

 

We have 99.9 % availability for our As/400 systems, for the last 2 years

 

Backup strategy includes full system save, incremental saves, with no downtime

We also use Data Mirror product to mirror to a whole range of hosts, including As/400s, NT, unix etc

 

I am not in sales but for 7 x 24 shops I think EMC disk storge & software is basically second to none

We are using Storage Area networks in our site using fiber hubs, fiber cards etc

Visit the following EMC sites

http://www.emc.com/products/software/as400.jsp?openfolder=storage_software

http://www.emc.com/products/software/copypoint.jsp?openfolder=storage_software

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: 09 June 2000 22:33
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: 24/7 questions:

At 01:13 PM 06/09/2000 -0700, you wrote:

Hello all. I would like to revisit a topic that has come up more than once.
My shop will become a 24/7 shop within the next year, and I would
appreciate any and all advice on the best ways to accomplish this.
Mirroring servers, high availability software, shared journaling, etc. I
would like to know who has 24/7 shop and how they are managing. What are
you using for backup, and disaster recovery solutions?

We have several accounts that have this need, and we use the Mimix products from Lakeview.

As to D/R, you can fundamentally take two different approaches:

• Split up the boxes physically, but this makes day to day life tougher.
• Get a hot site contract, but this is more expensive.

Al

Separately I have a questions regarding Network attached storage. Is anyone
using this in conjunction with their 400? Does anyone know if it works? Is
there any documentation I could look into?

Any and all help will be appreciated.

-Matt

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