Disaster Recovery by taking an image of the server

hsahay · Post by **hsahay** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:29 am

Hi

We have a datastage 8.1 installation on an AIX 6.1 machine which is actually a LPAR on an IBM P570 server.

We are thinking of taking an image of our server which can be dropped on another server for the purpose of disaster recovery.

Our fall back plan is to take weekly backups of the production project and when disaster hits, build a new machine, reinstall datastage on it and then import the project backups.

Any thoughts, gotchas on the subject ?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:35 am

Lots of gotchas, mainly relating to host names, IP addresses, and the resolutions thereof. These are recorded in the metadata repository, so things break if they're not in the correct location.

hsahay · Post by **hsahay** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:44 am

Thanks Ray but my Unix admin assures me that when he drops the image on this new server it will be the exact replica of the old server...same everything including machine name, ip address etc ...