RE: HDR Failure Scenario

Why not just restore the same backup to both boxes, it would save a considerable amount of time. Also, you would probably want to not change the primary off of standard until the restore is done on the secondary. That way the primary won't be wasting a lot of time trying to connect. 1) Primary goes down. 2) Secondary is changed to standard and then backed up. 3) Backup is then restored to the Primary. 4) Do ontape -p on Secondary. 5) Do onmode -d primary <sec_name> on Primary. 6) Do onmode -d secondary <pri_name> on Secondary. 7) Logs are then sent to Secondary and HDR starts. If you want the secondary to be active until the primary is completely restored, you will also need to backup the logs on the secondary (ontape -a) and restore them to the primary (ontape -l) just before you issue the oninit command. The manual says that logs on the secondary can be pushed back to the primary after a failure, but I've never gotten that to work. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: antzz [mailto:member37779@dbforums.com] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:32 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: HDR Failure Scenario I would like to know if the following scenario will work (or whether it's feasible): 1) Primary goes down. 2) Secondary is changed to standard and then backed up. 3) Backup is then restored to the Primary. 4) Do Backup of primary again. 5) Do onmode -d primary <sec_name> on Primary. 6) Do ontape -p on Secondary. 7) Do onmode -d secondary <pri_name> on Secondary. 8) Logs are then sent to Secondary and HDR starts. I would like to test this scenario because I know the Secondary contains the most up-to-date transactions ( Rather than relying on the Secondary sending them over the network to the Primary after I restore the latest backup to the Primary - this is the normal Disaster Recovery Process as prescribed by the Informix Admin Guide). As for my scenario above, do I really need to do steps 4 and 6(i.e. Primary backup and Secondary Restore since I got the latest backup from the Secondary anyway - i.e. will the Secondary complain if I make it into a Secondary again without doing a restore?) Any opinions appreciated. Thanks. -- Posted via http://dbforums.com sending to informix-list