[geeks] SAN Question...

[Lionel Peterson]

Hello all,

Please excuse the ignorance, but I have a question about SAN and
backups - what do people do to back these up?

My company is thinking about getting two SANs, putting them next to
each other and backing one up to the other (after dividing the workload
across them, so that SAN_A has the primary copy of partition_a and a
backup of partition_b, while SAN_B has the reverse)... Is this what
people do?

As a random thought, has anyone backed up on SAN device to a similar
SAN device at a remote location (say an off-site data center)? If so,
how were they connected?

Thanks in advance, I'm reviewing a plan for our office
network/infrastructure and I am not certain about this technology
(never worked with it)...


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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