xxcopy, let the games begin...

righteo - have cranked up xxcopy to use as a file shunter over a WAN.

scenario - one data server in one city, one data server in another. Max 1Mb pipe for data transfer.

PartitionL on server1 for live data, PartitionL on server2 for a read only copy of same data.
PartitionG on server2 for live data, PartitionG on server1 for read only copy of same data.

see whereI'm going here? Disaster recovery and business continuity....aaaah catchword du jour (read, ever since 9/11)

so - we shunt live data from one city to a read only partition in another city, and visa versa.

today, is step one, gentle reader. Cloning the initial data from live partition to read only on other server.

xxcopy file:////server1/L: file:////server2/L: /clone

this, in theory will clone everything from share L from one to the other.

Needless to say, it's far more in-depth that what I'm slapping up here. For obv. reasons...