I find it amazing that, in this day and age, a major public sector mainframe
data centerdoes not seem to have a complete disaster contingency plan.
I know that there is a cost for doing this but common sense needs to prevail
here.
On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 08:58:00 AM EDT, Colin Paice
<[email protected]> wrote:
As part of my customer visits to do audits you get to hear their tales of
woe.
1. Major outage at main site. All people go to new DR site - they do not
have badge access through the doors!
2.As part of a DR walk through, people had to go and physically touch the
kit they would be turning on/off. They found some of the kit in locked
areas - and none of the DR team had a key!
3.Major power outage on site. They found their recovery bible on what to
do ( and how to restart the site) was on a server - which had no power.
When power came back, they started the server and the "cloud disks" copied
the bible to a laptop, and shut the site down. Then followed the bible.
Follow up plan was to print a copy, and keep it in the operations room.
Perhaps someone should write up these sort of tales, and make it required
reading at Computer Science school.
Colin
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
