From: Filipe Litaiff (filipe_litaiff@optiglobe.com.br)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 13:19:10 EDT
Greetings Sun Managers,
Our environmnent is growing very fast here, and I think some of our stragegies
need a rethinking.
One of the most critical issues is a effective strategy for disaster
recovery.
Of course, we have setup all regular backup configuration needed (Netbackup).
But.... when you have a *really* serious SLA, it may be not enough. Of course,
disaster recovery plans are subject for a very extensive debate.
For the application data, we have proper backups configured. If something
disastrous happens, we can restore it with minimum pain.
The environment what I am responsible for is Solaris based (8 & 9) with
Netbackup, L20, storage on T3 and EMCs, Veritas Foundation, SDS, etc.
My questions:
* I would like to know what this forum thinks regarding basic steps for
recovery in case of OS disaster and corruption. We have our boot disks
mirrored and the OS filesystems backuped frequently. But if the systems
corrupts or both boot disk crashes, what coud be done to perform the
environment recovery as fast as possible? We have set-up a jumpstart server
with a basic Solaris installation. Is a good strategy to maintain flash
archives on this server to restore the OS in case of disaster?
* What would a experienced Solaris SysAdmin do to make systems recovery and
support less risky as possible?
For example, I created a infra to maintain a base of explorers of all servers
outside the environment. Every server, once a week, creates a explorer and
send it to a box. It can be very useful when your regular system documentation
is not detailed enough or to track down point-in-time changes and errors that
monitoring tools don't check.
* Anyone knows good resources for DRPs (books, links, etc.) regarding the
datacenter as a whole (windows, unices, network, database, VM, etc.)?
Thanks in advance, and I will summarise.
Regards,
Filipe Litaiff
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