Saturday, September 20, 2014

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

Multiple Data Centers
Companies usually operate two or more geographically separate data centers (primary data center and secondary data center) to make sure business continues as usual in the event of a disaster at one of the data centers.In addition to traditional backups, real-time data from primary data center will be constantly replicated to the secondary data center.
In the event of a disaster, the infrastructure at the secondary data center is enabled to run the business.

Disaster Recovery Plan
Disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented process or set of procedures to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. Organizations conduct regular (usually annual) drills to
1) Ensure DRP is current and valid
2) Understand the time taken for recovery and switching back to primary data center (assuming Primary data center has returned to normalcy)

3) Understand the resources required to implement the plan
4) Ensure all team members fully understand their duties is implementing the plan



Questions for discussion (considering JD Edwards environments)
1) Is my DRP complete by including just the production database as part of the replication from primary to secondary data center?
2) Is it required to include Central objects databases of all the non-production environments as part of the DRP?

Please share your experiences

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