Comments on: AS/400 disaster recovery procedures

By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 28, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog

The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 28, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:34:35 +0000

[...] 3. NickHutcheson1 and CharlieBrowne detail how to create a disaster recovery plan. [...]

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:26:37 +0000

Did any of this help?
What more do you need?

By: rajasekhar15

rajasekhar15 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:49:34 +0000

great thanks for sharing ..templeton

By: btempleton

btempleton — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:03:31 +0000

Disaster is a continuum. We started with how to handle small disasters that are likely to happen such as a snow storm here in Colorado. We did company-wide planning, not just IT. So we planned for how to clear the parking lot, etc. From the IT side, we started working on what things absolutely needed to be done for our customers and how we could do that from home if necessary. We figured that if we worked on the smaller, more likely disasters, we would be working toward plans for a big one. I see it as an on-going process. As a result we have improved our backups and our email and network access. Still working on other issues as funds permit, but we have a direction and are working on it.

By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 22, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog

The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 22, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:21:08 +0000

[...] 3. NickHutcheson1 and CharlieBrowne detail how to create a disaster recovery plan. [...]

By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 15, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog

The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 15, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:24:37 +0000

[...] Rajasekhar15 sparked a great discussion about disaster recovery. TomLiotta, NickHutcheson1 and others weigh [...]

By: hmssl2k

hmssl2k — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:06:23 +0000

Also define how long you can afford to be down? Hot site, remote site.
DR plan is living document that changes all the time. Keep it current and test your plan.

By: yorkshireman

yorkshireman — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:42:59 +0000

As Tom has already said – Define disaster.

I can see you at the bottom of the crater / floating on a door, with some tapes – half inch reels that would be – and needing to implement the company’s disaster recovery..

You need to go and ask lots of questions to understand what the task is.
and then ask for lots of momey – on a continuing basis – if you really want to be be able to be back in business and collecting the debts 48 hours after the flood / tornado / explosion / landslide / riots pass through.

Start with google for a day – plenty of material on t’internet.

By: rajasekhar15

rajasekhar15 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:27:08 +0000

i need to know what are the steps will b taken at the time of any disaster if happen?my company provided me only recovery documents which includes to restore the objects from tape.but i need to know the steps to be taken while disaster.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:30:43 +0000

what are the steps that has to taken place in disaster recovery?

Step #1: Define “recovery”.

There is wide variation in what sites need for recovery. Do you need every business unit doing the same work within 30 minutes? How many business units do you have to cover? Or can your site handle a lot of work manually for a few days? (A week?)

A recovery for me is almost guaranteed to be very different than for you.

Step #2: Define “disaster”.

Is a site destroyed? Or is it just a portion of a data center? Is it over a wide region, e.g., the New Orleans flooding?

A local building fire that makes a system unusable will be very different from a regional catastrophe. And both of those can have very different consequences depending on how Step #1 has been stated.

You might need nothing more than a cycle of off-site backups in order to recover sufficiently in an acceptable time frame. Someone else might need redundant sites in separated regions ready to switch at a moment’s notice. Without good definitions of “recovery” and “disaster”, we can’t guess what’s meaningful for you.

Tom