On 15 Sep 2009 13:36:47 -0700, aguto...@ford.com (Arthur Gutowski) wrote: >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. >> >>I didn't write the cost/benefit analysis for this. >> >>Tom Moulder > >BTDTGTTS. We completed a divestiture using this method a few years ago, >with a measure of success, actually. A long and painful experience, but we >got through it.
The hard part here is determining which method is more reliable. Either way, backups are essential. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
