That’s the second week of disaster recovery testing over. It went a lot better this time. We can definitely recreate out production RAC, cold-failover clustered infrastructure and our application server layer, which is a massive relief.
There have been lots of lessons learnt, and lots of new documents generated. I’m hoping the next test in a few weeks will be a walk in the park 🙂
You get so complacent about your documentation until someone else has to follow it. As part of the “What happens if I get hit by a bus?” paranoia that these tests produce, I’ve started capturing screen shots of all the Linux OS installations. I did a load at the weekend that will be used to create a “fool-proof” idiots installation guide for work, but I also captured some images with less sensitive information to produce some pages for my website. They’ll just be pages full of images, like the Solaris install article, but they might come in handy if people are unfamiliar with the OS installation process. I’ll write a post when they are done…
Cheers
Tim…
PS. All weekend PC support duties were completed. My Dad now has ADSL and some AntiVirus software. The world can sleep safe tonight! 🙂
