RE: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-24 Thread owentoby
no [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hOt or cold back up? Hot and cold backups refer to backing up a database. A hot backup is a backup of the database while the database is up and running. You backup software needs to unde

Re: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-21 Thread Jeff Giuliano
Hot and cold backups refer to backing up a database. A hot backup is a backup of the database while the database is up and running. You backup software needs to understand the internals of your database in order to perform it correctly. Hot backups often end up being invalid due to the nature o

Re: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Tatroe
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Kelly Kleinfelder wrote: > A cold site is an empty computer room equipped with raised floor, > air-conditioning, power and fire suppression. Basically, an empty data > center just waiting for computers. A hot site is a data center that is fully > equipped with machines ready

RE: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Hall
the difference as I know it is how the site is configureda hot backup SITE is online and your systems are sharing the data..or the data is being copied to the alternate site in real time. Your primary site goes down..the hot backup site immediately kicks in. A cold backup Site is one where t

Re: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-20 Thread Kelly Kleinfelder
Rodrigo, A cold site is an empty computer room equipped with raised floor, air-conditioning, power and fire suppression. Basically, an empty data center just waiting for computers. A hot site is a data center that is fully equipped with machines ready to be used quickly in the event of an emergen

Re: hot or cold back up?

2001-12-20 Thread Walt Nickels
Sure. A hot site is a commercial disaster recovery service that allows a business to continue computer and network operations in the event of a computer or equipment disaster. For example, if an enterprise's data processing center becomes inoperable, that enterprise can move all data processing o

Re: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-20 Thread Dennis Depp
A hot backup refers to backing up a database while the database is still running. On a cold backup to shutdown the database and then do the backup. Dennis Depp At 06:32 PM 12/17/2001 -0300, Rodrigo Ramos wrote: >Hi, > >Can anyone tell me the difference between hot site back up and cold site >b

RE: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-20 Thread Jagh, Kevin (TGA/MLOL)
HOT sites are live, all the time. The "time to recovery" is almost nothing, as all the data on one site is kept totally current (within maybe a few minutes) of the other site. The hardware is already in place, and so is the software (through some sort of backup replication or somesuch). Alterna

Re: hOt or cold back up?

2001-12-20 Thread gminick
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:32:11PM -0300, you (Rodrigo Ramos) wrote: > Can anyone tell me the difference between hot site back up and cold site > back up? Fix me if I'm wrong, but I think that hot backup is when you're backuping your data in a realtime, and cold (???) is when you are doing backup