Realtime Backup to SAN device

[dlubinsk]

We currently use a SAN device to perform realtime backups of our Windows 2003 servers.
Is it possible to do the same for the mfgpro db on a unix server ie.
realtime backup of db to a SAN device.

any help would be appreciated

 

[TomBascom]

Probably. But it depends on what you mean by a "realtime backup".

 

[JTWilson]

You'd need something like database replication, but this would require another copy of the database to be hosted on a server that writes to the SAN.

Or you would need to mirror the partition that the database resides on, on to the SAN. Although this might have performance implications.

 

[4GLNewbie]

If your purpose is to have data on the two servers be the same, replication is the solution. To perform it without slowing down the server, you must be careful in how you do it.
Probably you will need at least another server to "mirror" the main one and copy data to the local db.
It requests a lot of resources, of course.

For Unix i can't help you out.

If i misunderstood the topic, i m sorry!