Recovery Considerations
The Sun StorEdge Network Data Replicator 3.0 System Administrator’s Guide contains information about various recovery scenarios. This section describes the following topics:
■Failing Over to the Secondary Site
■Recovering the Primary or Secondary Site
■Using The Sun SNDR and Sun StorEdge Instant Image Software
Failing Over to the Secondary Site
Should the primary site fail, the secondary copy can be used to continue operations after the user community and the applications are switched to the alternate site. You should implement application level recovery procedures at the secondary site to help ensure application recovery to a
Recovering the Primary or Secondary Site
Occasionally, remote mirroring operations are interrupted either intentionally or by unplanned outages. Normally, these interruptions are handled by the Sun SNDR software because whenever a member of a Sun SNDR software volume pair becomes unavailable, the write activity is scoreboarded in the volume’s bitmap. When the service is restored, a fast update or resynchronization is performed.
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