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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HOW TO INVOKE
DISASTER
RECOVERY

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INTRODUCTION AND AGENDA
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Duration: 30 mins (including
Q&A)
Type questions on the right
hand side – all questions will
be answered
Slides will be made
available and sent to you
following the session

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• 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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INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Automated Manual
Initial notification
Incident
Verification
Logging, categorisation
Escalation Escalate
Invoke DR
Communicate
Not an
incident

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TO FAIL OVER OR NOT TO FAIL OVER?
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INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS - DEFINING THRESHOLDS
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Number of systems to
fail / proportions
Type of system failed Incident type
30

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DEFINING THRESHOLDS - TIME
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Maximum tolerable
period of disruption
(MTPD)
Recovery Time
Objective
Kick-off/Invoke Disaster
Recovery
4 hours 1 hour 3 hours- =

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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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IT Admin IT Manager Department
Heads
IT Director /
CIO
CEO

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COMMUNICATION

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• Confirm kick-off
• Test infrastructure
• DNS and networking switch over (+firewall rule changes)
• Test and confirm connections (incoming and outgoing)
• Inform users
• Troubleshooting
RECOVERYSTAGES

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RECOVERYSTAGES – THE RUNBOOK
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• 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

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RECTIFYING THE ROOT CAUSE

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FAILBACK

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RESOURCES
Databarracks’ business continuity tools
https://tools.databarracks.com/
The Business Continuity Podcast
http://www.thebcpcast.com/
Build your own mass notification tool
https://tools.databarracks.com/home/mass-notification.html

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QUESTIONS?