Liz, I wish you and your crew a good luck. I hope nobody gets hurt, that's the
most important thing. And you are right about the surviving outage thing.
However, surviving the hurricane takes precedence over the survival of the
business. Irma is a monster.
Regards
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:18:16 +0000
"Reen, Elizabeth " <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender
"elizabeth.reen" for DMARC) wrote:
We have a datacenter in the Bahamas. The network links are not
fast enough for Dataguard, the DR site is in Asia. This is a business
decision (which I hope they rethink after this). We do a dump and load for
recovery there. They have to come down today so we can make sure we have a
good backup. I remember from the first World Trade Center bombing, that the
network was the last thing we got back. Check your DR networks. The odds of
a business surviving a 5 day outage are not good.
Liz
Elizabeth Reen
CPB Database Group Manager
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Gus Spier
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2017 8:46 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: Disaster Recovery and Hurricane Harvey
Outside all of the loss, pain, and general Schrecklichkeit associated with
Hurricane Harvey, is anybody else interested in gathering real life Disaster
Recovery scenarios from this event?
The thought is to solicit real-life DR stories, redact sensitive data
(identities, businesses, etc), and compare and contrast them to highlight
what worked, what didn't, how outside issues or personal stresses complicated
the recovery.
Other topics of interest:
* How distant was the Disaster Recovery site?
* Did anybody effectively exercise DR procedures?
If there is interest and participation, I would envision some kind of freely
distributed "lessons-learned" document.
Regards,
Gus Spier
