Scott,<div><br></div><div>Honestly most business I deal with have moved away from DR and moved to a business continuity plan. Although it sounds the same DR typically means restoring from backup with an acceptable window of downtime. However a Business continuity plan is more of a Warm or Hot standby type environment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With that being said CCM, Unity and IPCC all support a failover type situation that would serve you far better than trying to restore from a backup.</div><div><br></div><div>I can tell you that restoring CM from a backup takes a few hours minimum so you are looking at a long day to even think about getting just the phone system up and functioning.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For the price take a look at getting the HA licenses for Unity and IPCC. CM would just be another node license</div><div><br></div><div>Craig<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Scott Voll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com">svoll.voip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have CM / UCCx / etc all housed here. we are working on a DR plan. I have MCS servers that I'm planning on housing at a remote site where the ISP will relocate MAN services in the case of a Disaster (fire is the worst case) my plan is to Backup to storage at this DR site so in the case of a fire I would just drive to the DR site and restore the backup.</div>
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<div>All sounds great, but how do you install the CM cluster(UCCx, Unity, CER etc). Do I have to buy new licensing or not? I can't remember if I can install CM second node without the license file? in the case of the disaster (fire) am I going to be stuck waiting on cisco licensing? </div>
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<div>What are others doing? Should I be rethinking DR?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>Scott</div>
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<div>**DR = Disaster recovery</div></div>
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