OT: disaster recovery

[Walter Vaughan]

Richard D. Williams wrote:
> In a Red Hat Enterprise environment, what would be the best disaster 
> recovery configuration?  Money is no object.

"Best" Disaster configuration is about as hard as defining "Best automobile".

What you consider a disaster may not be what I consider a disaster.

Think about what can and will go wrong...
	Fire in server room
	Theft of equipment in server room
	Lighting damage to server room equipment
	Water damage in server room
	Mechanical failure of components in server room
	Inadvertent or Intentional deletion or data
	Short or long term loss of power to server room
	Short of long term loss of network & internet
	
You may not be able to avoid all of the above, but you should be able to answer 
how you are going to deal with them with your insurance agent (I have to).

In my opinion a off premise system with a method of off-line snapshots of data 
is critical to answering all of the above.

FilePro makes this tough. Off premise mirroring of live data is not a built in 
feature.

I do like the "Money is No Object". If that really is true... then have someone 
pony up the money to re-write the filePro application environment to allow for a 
separate database abstraction layer to allow data storage in 
Oracle/DB2/MS-SQL/MySQL/PosgreSQL systems that have automatic fallover and data 
recovery that I have been whining about.

--
Walter