a hot back up machine

Disaster Recovery - A Hot Backup Machine

Maintain an identical replica of your live applications (Data & Objects) on another iSeries.

If your primary machine fails, some or all users can immediately be switched to the backup machine and continue from where they left off.

Item	Example Price	Comment
*noMAX software on Primary iSeries	£2,662	A copy of noMAX is required on both machines but, as there is less functionality required on the primary machine a copy is discounted in price by 75%. Using the Software Tier* rating of your iSeries, *the table below* will give you a guide to your software price.
*noMAX software on Backup iSeries	£3,550	A very small iSeries can be used to backup a very large iSeries, it just needs enough disk space to hold the data and sufficient Interactive capability to support the number of users that must be given access. £3,550 is the cost of *noMAX on the following hardware
Backup iSeries	£12,333	If you have an old iSeries, then nothing else is required. A new i520 Express, with 105Gb of useable (Raided) disk and a CPW rating of 600/30, has the capacity and resilience to cope with a significant number of concurrent users.
Total Capital Cost	£18,545
Lease Estimate	£1,740/qtr	Based on a 3-year finance lease

Software Tier	P5	P10	P20	P30	P40
*noMAX Price	£3,550	£4,950	£7,300	£11,100	£14,600

Benefits
	The backup machine is immediately available for use.
	If you have a machine, machine room or whole site disaster, your up-to-the-minute data is safe. (Recovery from last nights backup is rarely possible these days).
	You have 24 x 7 availability of your applications.
	Do backups during the day, instead of at night.
	Do backups more often - every hour?
	Do backups from the backup machine, leaving the primary machine available to users.
	Run reports and enquiries on the backup machine.
	Use the second machine for development etc.



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