There was a big lesson, probably already told here. A bank had a back-up site in Denver. Everything moved smoothly, except one overlooked detail. The people involved in the DR, had cell phones with New Orleans area codes. The C/O was under 30-50 feet of water. No calls in or out. It was written up in Disaster Recovery Magazine. It's the unforeseen that crunches you in the butt!
Nobody even thought about it until Katrina. Your technical plan may be perfect; it can all fall apart on people and logistical problems. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -----Original Message----- From: Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 20:07:31 To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question Any presentations on the Hurricane Katrina scenarios? One company shut down their Miami data center and transferred operations to New Orleans. 3 days later Miami was still without power and New Orleans shut down. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ed Finnell <efinnel...@aol.com> wrote: > There were several Chicago stories at SHARE and others. Still remember the > Ryder presentation after Hurricane Andrew. They even had 'Helper' teams for > families that had damage or were displaced. > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
