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Surviving Hurricane Katrina: A sysadmin's epic DR (as in Didn't Realise) odyssey

Jim 43

Re: DR is like backups...

Yeah, I didn't have the time to do it right. But even if I could have found the time I didn't have the experience. I inherited most of those systems and didn't understand what was needed to recover or rebuild them. There was no documentation or change control. The tape backups were good but no decrypt keys meant that they were functionally useless. Realistically, even if I'd had the keys I wouldn't have been able to restore them as they were going onto new hardware, and, having never tested... You get the idea.

As to today? On each of the ~1600 machines I'm responsible for there's a job that runs three times a day to validates that files are being backed up to the master catalog server. We've got a dedicated enterprise backup team, but I still make sure that I've done everything I can to ensure things are working. Every year we have a DR exercise and every year I volunteer to be on the team.

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