Third-party tools are available that can be used to create
a geographically remote mirror of a running system (including database,
file storage, and full index data).
- IBM®
Tivoli® Storage Manager
- VERITAS Volume Replicator.
- SAN/NAS storage vendors (for example, EMC Symmetrix Remote Data
Facility, EMC Centera asynchronous replication, and Network Appliance
SnapMirror).
- Geographic Remote Mirroring (GeoRM) for AIX®.
- Oracle Data Guard (covers only the Oracle databases; other replication
products are needed for the other data).