OT: disaster recovery

[Doug Luurs]

That would be a interesting thing .. 

Filepro <==> MySql (Other SQL DB)

As a record is Updated/Created/Deleted in Filepro, have filepro issue a
command
To a MySql (Other SQL DB) system on another machine that keeps a
transaction log
of everything done.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Walter Vaughan
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:43 AM
> To: filePro
> Subject: Re: OT: disaster recovery
> 
> 
> 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
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