Your query got me curious so I went to our DBA to ask. We have a live system, a fallback system and a development system. 3:00 AM was determined to be the time with the lowest volume of activity. So at that time we do a Unix system copy of the file systems from the live system to the fallback system. The DBA said it takes just under 3 hours to do this. As soon as that system copy is complete a tape backup of the fallback system is made and stored offsite.
Then each weekend the Thursday night tape is restored to the development machine. It's not perfect but it works for us. Gordon J. Glorfield Sr. Applications Developer MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company) 301-360-8839 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/06/2006 05:14:50 AM: [snip] > How do those companies who operate 24/7 get around this and perform > backups? > Thanks, [snip] This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
