Invoking Disaster Recovery isn’t as easy as some might have us believe. In fact, it’s probably one of the most intensely scrutinised and difficult times for any IT professional.
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HOWTOSETUPDISASTERRECOVERY
• The three stages of Disaster Recovery
• Setting up
• Business as usual
• Invocation
• Thresholds for invoking DR
• Roles and responsibilities for invocation and while in DR
• Communication
• Recovery stages
• Rectifying the root cause
• Failback
AGENDA
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RECOVERYSTAGES – THE RUNBOOK
HOWTOSETUPDISASTERRECOVERY
• Confirm correct version of
backup/replica to recover
• Restore server
• Reboot
• Login to domain
• Check IP
• Reboot VM
• Start database
• Check domain and AD
authentication
• Reboot server
• Check SQL instance is running in
Management Studio