Re: Reguarly copying dbspaces etc to DR server?

In article <6p27u0$cbm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, d.berry@ukonline.co.uk says... > >All, > >I am looking for a simple solution to keep a Disaster Recovery Server fairly >upto date with Production. For example loading nightly backups in each night, >does anybody have anything similar in place, or can you point me in the right >direction. We backup nightly using ontape, which seems very difficult to >control using a script! > >Any help appreciated > >Rgds > >Daniel.B We currently do precisely this, ie dump a database server to DLT using ontape, then restore it onto another database server (which, by necessity, must be on another UNIX server, since the chunk pathnames must be identical. It works OK, and isn't particularly difficult to do or to maintain. Another alternative you might look at is Informix's own mirroring. We are about to abandon nightly copies in favour of real-time hardware mirroring however. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK (neil.truby@chase.com)