What I find surprising is...
I don't normally comment on this kind of public forums, but I had found this piece of information shocking...
Page 13. Point 3.
IT has not been able to convince users on the need for doing full
Disaster Recovery tests and negotiate windows for these to occur. The
infrastructure limitations mean that any such test will involve downtime
which business has so far refused, without properly understanding the
consequence. Had these occurred it would have demonstrated that the
backup systems were not functioning correctly..
I can't believe that: 1. Any company wil put them in huge risk without testing the DRP Plan. and 2. The business is so blind that will refuse any testing for what is more or less a mandatory requirement for any modern business.
I know there is a huge amount of companies that doesn't have the resources or means to execute a full DRP plan, but I rest my case with this particular example.
BTW, who told them that snapshots = backups... Another huge mistake and I blame 100% for believing this...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
