Re: [Networker] True Disaster Recovery

Rather than lease, get a company to do a quick ship. We have a company that
will
quick ship us 3 servers and 2 tape drives that can read our backup tapes.
Starting with all of our production data being cloned and send off site
daily and "important" media in a DR box offsite with the tapes, this is what
we do for DR.
1) Call to get our equipment delivered to our cold site
2) Set up equipment when it comes at our cold site (46 hrs after #1)
3) Set up the machines as follows
    Networker machine
    Oracle server
    VMWare server
4) do a DR on the networker server
5) restore oracle data
6) restore application server into vmware instances

It all has been tested yearly and it works for us. Downside is it takes
48hrs to get our equipment to the coldsite. Upside is that we use HPUX and
using recovery tapes for the networker and oracle server is  GREAT ;-)

Ken


On 10/3/06, Albert Eddie Contractor AFRPA CIO/IT <
Eddie.Albert AT afrpa.pentagon.af DOT mil> wrote:


I read (with interest) the thread about disaster recovery. (Recovering
tapes on Server B if Server A dies and you can not change Server B name
because it is in use as a full time server)...

Our disaster plan has to be a little more "NEW ORLEANS" (what if the
site is completely wiped out!?)

I love reading other people's disaster plans even while I am refine my
own. Do any of you have disaster plans you could share with me?

Of particular interest is complete SERVER ROOM disaster (aka no other
server in room can be used)....

Some of the best plans (on a budget) that I have read have included
LEASING a server that meets the H/W & S/W requirements on a month by
month basis while you rebuild your server room with PURCHASED H/W.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Always Faithful & Prepared! /ALE

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