Re: contingency planning for hardware failures?

In article <9050sl$g77$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   gdas_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are just a few months away from the launch of our system. I'm
> currently trying to do a scenario report for potential disasters that
> might occur and their impacts on the database (and ultimately the
> business!). The purpose of this is to make sure that we have all the
> redunant components and procedures in place.
>
> Specifically in regards to the database, does anyone know of a good
> resource (book, magazine, web site) that discusses failure
> probabilities of hardware? Or can anyone answer these questions here?
>
> We'll be running Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun Enterprise servers.
>
> I have a hunch that the highest probability of failure will be in the
> disk drives, followed by the disk controllers. What other hardware
> components do you think I should be concerned about?
>
> We don't have deep pockets so I don't think I can convince management
> to buy duplicate sun servers at $100K each and have them sitting idle
> in case of a failure. Unless of course the probability of a failure
> occurring on the motherboard or something like that is high enough.
>
> I appreciate any feedback.
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
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Try to make an estimate how much one hour of downtime would cost your firm. After that revise your calculations. If you don't have deep pockets, a disaster might cause your firm to go bankrupt, doesn't it?

Regards,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

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