I need to test Domino server disaster scenario.1- Domino Server in city A is configured for replication to DR site in City B
2- Cluster is not configured
3- All the users have home server at City A
4- For example server in city A crashes or there is a disaster scenario how can I move my users (or selected users) to city B?
5- What should I do to let the server in city B to start receiving/sending e-mails provided that MX record is shifted in few minutes using MPLS.
Regards,
Subject: Testing DR scenario
There is no practical way to do this without clustering. I recommend that you look into upgrading to 8.0.1, where streaming cluster replication will make a WAN-based cluster much more feasible.
Subject: Testing DR scenario
We’re planning on the same thing. What I reckon should work is that server B can send external emails anyway, using SMTP normally, so if a user is working on that server and sends an email it will work.
For incoming mail, I was going to just create an agent in names.nsf which updates all the home servers for people. So when server A goes down you log in to server B and run the agent on the directory. All incoming mail starts going to their new mailfile.
It does require manual intervention, but this is only a DR situation, we have a cluster for normal failover.