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- From: jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Jeff White)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Best way to keep mirror (backup) on instance on another machine
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.181023.27308@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:10:23 GMT
- Organization: Drexel University, ECE Department, Philadelphia, PA
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- We have an Informix database instance on our primary database machine
- with a defined raw disk space of 1G although probably about 150M is being
- used now. We want to create a 2nd computer which will act as a backup.
- If the primary system goews down (for an extended period of time), the
- backup would be brought online. 100% data availability in not required.
- Our current idea (not tested yet) would be to copy the dump achives
- from the primary machine (we use tbtape to archive to a unix file, then
- dump that to tape) to the backup and restore them, hopefully synchronizing
- the databases at least at that point in time. If it wasn't too difficult or
- too expensive resource wise, I'd like to find a way that this updating
- could be done more often or more easily. Any ideas?
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- Jeff White
- jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
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