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Best Practice for site A Fail Back after DR Excersize at Site B with Virtual Standbys

jtrevino
over 7 years ago

Hello,

 

...looking for the best way to do this. Here is the setup (MS Paint still rules!)

 

For the failback operation, we do not want, nor will we have the time to create a seed and ship it back down to Site A. Only ~35GB will have changed and it is a SQL database, files and folders changed, and IIS website data changing.

 

Is there a way to fail back to the Site A source and not have to restore all 500GB? Only 35GB has changed so this could be restored overnight if there is an efficient way. These sites are across the country from each other.

Site A source is currently physical but could be changed to Virtual if needed.

 

*SiteA and SiteB are DL4000 Appliances running 6.1

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  • 0 over 7 years ago
    if you're using agent based backups, actually you don't know the state of the source server when it shuts down, since you haven't taken a backup at that stage. As such it can't say only 35GB is different as it won't know.

    As for improving the way you restore to a physical box, that's something I've been asking for, for a long time. Basic idea is create a URC disk that allows you to perform the same as virtual standby but to that client and then just finalise / inject drivers when finished.

    Nothing yet though, don't envisage anything soon
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  • 0 over 7 years ago
    if you're using agent based backups, actually you don't know the state of the source server when it shuts down, since you haven't taken a backup at that stage. As such it can't say only 35GB is different as it won't know.

    As for improving the way you restore to a physical box, that's something I've been asking for, for a long time. Basic idea is create a URC disk that allows you to perform the same as virtual standby but to that client and then just finalise / inject drivers when finished.

    Nothing yet though, don't envisage anything soon
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