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Hi Rob – We use the AIX utility ‘rdist’ (see ‘man rdist’) in a ksh script to keep a remotely-located Disaster Recovery system synchronized with our Cloverleaf production machine for the key Cloverleaf directories. The synchronization script runs twice per day via root-level cron. The script is set up to skip the directories which have active locked files (smat, database). Every 6 months we request a temporary license key from Quovadx and do a disaster-recovery drill at the remote site with selected interfaced systems. Both our primary and remote systems are running AIX 5.1, HACMP, Cloverleaf 5.3. We’ve found the rdist utility to be an easy way to automate this process. (The disaster-recovery synchronization is in addition to our normal production tape backups, which are rotated off site.)
-Glenn
Glenn Friedenreich
Christiana Care Health System
Wilmington, DE
