Backup Stratedgy

artor

Hi,

I am setting up the backup for TeamSite in the following way.

1. I have two box one is Prod and other is Dev and have a same content store in both Prod and Dev Teamsite and both these boxes are replicating each other through OpenDeploy(which needs to figure out how) whatever the change occurs on Prod box update on the dev box through OD. So if failure is occured on Prod box then the traffic will direct towards Dev box or any loss occurs on Prod box which can be recovered from Dev box or vice versa. Dev box has multi store.

2.Also We have daily tape backup for the whole machine so in case failover occurs on both the machines at the same time so we can recover the machine through that tape.

For the time being requirement to use Teamsite only business hours so in case of few hours down would be acceptable.

Please let me know these scenario would work effectively for backing up the TeamSite or is there any issues involve to use this technique.

TS 6.1 + Solaris 5.8

Regards,

Phil

Some things to think about...

1a. For backing store replication, consider network storage (Netapp, SAN, etc) if you have access to it. This gives you many more options for replicating the backing store.

1b. If you are going to redirect traffic to the Dev server you need a configuration management procedure that would allow you to switch between Production-level code and Dev-level code. This procedure would manage the code located in the iw-home directory.

1c. You will need some way to prevent developers from changing code while the Dev box is in production failover mode.

2. When you are running your tape backup on Dev the backing store will be frozen and will prevent any Prod-to-Dev synchronization from occuring during this time. You will probably need to add some logic to retry synchronization when it fails.