Ignite, Data Domain and DRP

[William Tidwell]

I have a question involving Data Domain and Ignite. Currently we create ignite tapes once a week and send offsite. When we test our DR plan we ignite a number of servers at our DR site, configure the new disk storage and restore files from Data Protector tapes. The database is recovered from RMAN files.

We have Data Domain to the DR site, so what I'd like to do is reconfigure an ignite server to send the archives to a Data Domain drive and have that replicate to the DR site. If possible, in a disaster I'd like to nfs mount the archive stores and use that machine as an ignite server to boot from. If possible I'd rather not rack mount an HP/UX server just for this purpose. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Bill Hassell]

I'm not sure I follow. You have the data replicated to the DR storage system and you want to mount the data using NFS but not use an HP-UX server? Or do you mean you don't want a dedicated Ignite-only server?

Anyways, in a true smoke-and-rubble disaster, everything is gone and your DR site must stand on its own. Any one of the servers can act as the Ignite server but since this task is network-limited, there won't be much of a load, even during multi-system restores. So this server can also run a database or web page server, etc and still be the Ignite server.

Note: Using NFS as the source for the /var/opt/ignite files can impact the restore time significantly simply due to the overhead with NFS. Use the fastest links you can get for the storage to Ignite server connection.

[William Tidwell]

Thank you, I did mean not having a dedicated ignite server, but because of time constraints for recovery I'm probably going to need one. The fastest link is a good idea. Thanks