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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers disaster recovery Post 50944 by Optimus_P on Wednesday 5th of May 2004 05:59:18 PM
Old 05-05-2004
i just put together a DR plan and a hotsite.

i was giveing the following criteria:

1) assume i am dead.
2) someone w/ unix knowledge would be doing the work.
3) if its not in my directions then im SOL and the plan will not work.

i covered 3 things.

1) complete system rebuild
1a) this includes which installation to do.
1b) min disk space req.
1c) any additional packages (and where they can be found inet/cd...)

2) any NON solaris software required.
2a) any special options needed to install/compile with other then default settings.

3) a copy of my backup script and a copy of the output. (so when they do get my offsite backups they know which spot on the tape to get a specific fs from.)

This serves 2 purposes 1) they know how the backup was created so they know how to restore.
2) they know where data is on the tape, since i backup multiple fses to a single tape.




all of this now covers

1) how to install from scratch.
2) how to recover just the applications/user data.

i must say though i did have an advantage of being able to build my DR machine as i wrote the docs so i was able to document each step from start to finish.
 

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