Our company actually declared a disaster after a flood in 1993 when faced with an extended power outage. We got to the hot site and began working on the restore when a large enough truck mounted generator was obtained, so we didn't actually have to go through with it. But it started me thinking about the process of coming back. It seems most tests and plans are centered around how to restore operations and cut over to a hot/DR site, but at the time no one seemed to be considering how you come back. When you declare a disaster, it's more or less a known quantity what kind of environment you will be moving into. It is much more difficult to plan on how one comes back, you could be faced with a wide range of scenarios, from largely intact equipment with out of date data (would have been our case due to a power outage), to a smoldering crater, and anything in between.
Dana On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 22:24:24 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >-- If you stayed in the DR environment long enough to have captured/updated >live customer data, how did you eventually return to the production >>environment? This question is crucial to business resiliency because at some >point down the line, you have to return or, as the poem goes, settle in for a >>long winter's nap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
