You can consider using a WAN optimization appliance such as a Riverbed Steelhead to significantly speed up your transfers, though that will cost. It is a common approach to speed up inter-datacenter transfers. Steelheads for the AWS EC2 cloud are also available.
(Disclaimer: I used to write software for the physical and AWS Steelheads.) Philip On Mar 15, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Rene Kochen > <rene.koc...@emea.schange.com> wrote: >> Thank you. I have a high bandwidth connection. But that also means that >> regular repairs on the backup data-center will take a long time. > > > > Honestly, at this point I don't think anyone can provide you any good > feedback based on facts because so far you haven't given us any facts. > Like: > > 1. How big of a data set? > 2. How many nodes in your primary DC? > 3. How many transactions/sec is your primary DC doing? > 4. What are your uptime SLA's? > 5. Just how fast is "high bandwidth" How much latency? > > Anyways, will it work? Possibly. What are the disadvantages? Well > it depends on a bunch of things you haven't told us. > > > > -- > Aaron Turner > http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic > http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & > Windows > Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. > -- Benjamin Franklin > "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
