Yes, just not forever
- TAGS:disaster recovery, hurricane
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Management
A hurricane causes systems at a regional site for this company to be down for several days -- and that delays customer deliveries, says a pilot fish in the know.
"Our central system backup plan is put into action," fish says. "Applications and data are loaded up to cover for the outage and to continue updating data, which requires a daily cycle of application programs to run. Support personnel take over that process while the remote data center comes back online.
"Several days later, all central data center backup data is transferred to the regional data center, along with responsibility for maintaining the regional data finishes.
"A couple days go by, and central support notices the regional data center is not running its daily cycle. That prompts a call to the manager in charge.
"After a short conversion explaining the reason for the call, the manager replies, 'Oh, I thought you guys were running our daily cycle for us.'"
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