On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder <tom_moul...@1scom.net> wrote:
>You laugh ... > >I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a >very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next >to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a >quiet point on a Sunday morning and split the link; uncabled the array; >shipped it across country to the BC site (Business Continuity now, not >Disaster Recovery); they are in the process of cabling it up; will turn >it on next weekend and away with go with a recovery drill. > This is a common practice used in data center moves also. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html