We have a DR plan in place. We test recovery every six months. We fly out of state to a Sungard facility with only our backup tapes, our documentation (which we keep off site) and restore our system. For exchange, use the FAQ of course and the DR one and two whitepapers off technet.
We restore everything including the Unix boxes, NT\2000, Terminal servers\Citrix, LAN and WAN. We have a separate PVC pointing to Phoenix location we use to restore the WAN. Everytime we do this we learn a ton more about being prepared. Exchange was the one and only thing that we had an issue with on the last trip and that was a backupexec thing, we now use NTbackup and have practice a few restores, piece of cake using NTBACKUP. We have had two exchange failures in the last three years, I won't talk about the first one but the second one was back up in less then three hours. Hope that helps, Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Amir El Aziq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Disaster Recovery In light of the recent WTC tragedy, I was wondering if anyone on the list had lost exchange servers, or were forced into DR by the situation? How did you handle business continuity, and was there anything that you learnt that would change your strategy going forward? How long did it take you to get things back online? I'm guessing that there are admins out there that were in this situation that had to get mail going in order to keep the (global) enterprise functioning. Amir _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
