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Re: Informix Replication

Posted By: Art Kagel
Date: Friday, 30 January 2009, at 2:08 p.m.

In Response To: Informix Replication (ANDREW PISTOCCHI)

Because your DR site is remote, I would suggest going up to 11.10 or 11.50
and setting up the DR server as an RDS server rather than as an HDR
secondary. The full duplex protocol that the RDS server uses is better when
the secondary is not local to the same data center. You could also set up a
local HDR secondary, but that's not necessary.

Art

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, ANDREW PISTOCCHI <APISTOCCHI@ut.edu> wrote:

> I'm looking at setting up replication with HDR (High Availability Data
> Replication) between our production HP 9000 and our D/R HP 9000. We are
> running HPUX 11.23 and Informix 10.00.HC5. In the past, I've used the
> Ignite process from HP to make a bootable backup tape of production and
> restore to D/R. This took care of all my volume groups and HPUX system
> files. I then just restored the database with ontape. This is a long
> and tedious process but it does work well. This has been our Disaster
> Recovery procedure when preparing for oncoming hurricanes.
>
> Now I want to take advantage of replication. Our vendor, Jenzabar has
> told us we can not use Enterprise Replication. I can't remember why it
> does not work. From some of the reading I've done, it doesn't look too
> hard to set up HDR. We have a 100 MB pipe between our production server
> and D/R. I'm thinking the pipe should be sufficient for replication.
> Right now I have both servers on the same network so I can reach them
> both.
>
> I'm just not sure how to deal with some of these items.
>
> 1. HP 9000 is the hostname of production, drhp 9000 is the name of
> D/R
>
> 2. 10.2.24.64 IP in production, 10.2.25.64 for D/R
>
> 3. Since the secondary, D/R will be read only, can the Informix
> server, service and protocol be the same?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy Pistocchi
>
> DBA / Systems Administrator
>
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• Informix Replication
  ANDREW PISTOCCHI -- Friday, 30 January 2009, at 1:39 p.m.
  • Re: Informix Replication
    Art Kagel -- Friday, 30 January 2009, at 2:08 p.m.
    • Re: Informix Replication
      Nilesh Ozarkar -- Friday, 30 January 2009, at 4:07 p.m.
      • Re: Informix Replication
        Art Kagel -- Friday, 30 January 2009, at 4:10 p.m.

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