Re: any known problem with Data Replication in Informix?

Hi Neil, Thanks for your reply first of all. We are looking at a full disaster recovery solution, where two systems are about 100 Kilometer apart. We are already doing local disk mirroring for disk failure recovery purpose. Once again. Really appreciate your efforts. Tim Lim In article <748d5b$cg8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: > I've used mirroring on HP-UX 9, Online v5 and it's OK. > > We've considered HDR at my HP-UX 10.20, Informix v7.24UC6 site, but rejected > in favour of using HP-UX's logical volume manager(lvm) mirroring. You can > do some quite sexy stuff with this if you're careful, like breaking the > mirror on occasion to provide an instant back-up before, say, a major > upgrade. > > I think the conventional wisdom is to use hardware mirror in preference to > software mirroring, and op system mirroring in preference to DBMS mirroring. > > Any reason for rejecting lvm mirroring? > > Neil Truby > aracnet Limited > Weybridge, UK > > tim_lim@exe.com.au wrote in message <747oje$9uu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... > >Hi there, > > > >We are planning to use High-Availability Data Replication (HDR) feature in > >Informix and would appreciate if you can share your experience in the use > of > >this feature. > > > >We are running HP-UX 10.20 and Informix 7.24UC5. I would appreciate all > input > >from users of different versions of Informix and UNIX platforms as well. > >Please kindly specify the version of Informix and UNIX platform used. > > > >Basically, what I am looking for are: > > > >- Known problem and how to avoid them. > >- Known Informix and Operating system patches needed for successful > operation > >of the HDR solution. > >- Frequency of problems you experinece. > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > >Tim Lim > > > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own