ADSM-L

Re: ADSM Database and Recovery log recovery

1996-12-10 12:20:30
Subject: Re: ADSM Database and Recovery log recovery
From: Chester Martel <cmartel AT PEACH.FRUIT DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:20:30 -0600
Naveed Mustafa wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> We are currently in the design phase of ADSM where ADSM server is running on 
> an
> RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 with clients ranging from AIX 3.2.5 to 4.1.x servers
> with the inclusion of Sun Sparcs, Novell, NT, SCO, and Lotus Notes.
>
> We would like to know the best practices in the industry regarding mirroring 
> of
> ADSM database backup and recovery log, i.e. whether to use ADSM based 
> mirroring
> or to utlize mirroring offered by AIX of the physical volume where database
> resides?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Naveed.There was a big discussion on this last week on this server.  Basically
if you are not raided then use ADSM mirroring.  The consensus was you
ALWAYS wanted to mirror the recovery log.  You need to stay within the
confines af ADSM when mirroring so that ADSM knows what's going on.  If
you use AIX it has no idea what ADSM is doing.
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