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It’s been a few years but I used to run DR exercises for corporates. Cold start means your only possessions are the fire proof suitcase full of LTO-5s and the s
by nickdothutton 3y ago
It’s been a few years but I used to run DR exercises for corporates. Cold start means your only possessions are the fire proof suitcase full of LTO-5s and the street address of the DR data center. 1 day to bootstrap essential infra services, after the end of the 2nd day you’d have most customer facing systems up, day 3 would be the non-essential stuff. Personally I’d do it without sleep, but most of the youngsters would need a break. Pretty exhilarating, as IT work goes. Always use the feature that generates multiple index tapes of what backup set is on what numbered tape :-)
- adityaathalye 3y agoOP here. That would be quite the trip! Finding oneself the front line of something like that would easily bring out the best---and the worst---in a person. A rare chance to form lifelong collegial bonds, and perhaps to exorcise a personal demon or two (fear, anger, egotism ...).
- nickdothutton 3y agoThe only reason I was brought in to do the exercise as a consultant, was because the guy supposed to be doing it was too frightened, delayed for almost a year, went on long term sick leave and was eventually fired/quit. The docs and ops procedures actually looked good, so I took on the challenge. In the end, just 1 flexvol that had been configured manually years before, and was missed by the DR automation. Not a bad result.
- ChoHag 3y ago[dead]
- jiggawatts 3y agoI had the misfortune of having to do this twice for real. I quit the storage / backup industry because 7:30am phone calls would make me hyperventilate in a panic.