Belated comment: I got a couple of laughs out of this post originally, but it might be well to realize that these stories are not of failures. This is why we do DR tests. It'd be a failure if you have an actual D and found you couldn't R.
So we try it out ahead of time, discover what we don't know, and repeat as necessary. That discovery is success, not failure. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence. -Carl Sagan, from "Broca's Brain" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 08:57 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
