Although very few shops actually do this, IMO the procedure should be: Management walks in the room and says " You, you, and you are dead as of "time/date". The rest of you go recover as of that time/date." The "dead people" cannot be consulted with during the DR exercise. "You, you, and you" should be different during each iteration of the test. After the fact, procedures/documentation are analyzed and updated based on the results.
In too many cases, I have seen "staged" recoveries, whereby the data is all snapshot'ed at the end of a "cycle" and neatly tied up in a package. The same "crew" is used repeatedly and becomes very familiar with all of the procedures, and actually tests nothing new. All that is proven in this case is your applications can run on other compatible hardware. I have deliberately ignored the data questions, as your configuration is nothing like mine. Just my $0.02 USD worth. HTH, <snip> I am looking to see how other shops are currently doing Backups for DR and OR. I think this will be valuable for the archives. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
