Are You Ready? Common Ways to Tell You Are Not Ready to Recover from a Disaster is an article I wrote when working recently on a disaster recovery project. It wasn't my first time working a project such as this, and I noted common mistakes being made over and over. These didn't have much to do with specific technology as much as the approach towards the need for an administrator to provide solid recovery of their systems. Specifics around process, documentation, and choosing from available options seem to catch us off guard way too often. When we realize our mistakes, it's almost too late to recover from the error. I hope to bring a little foresight to those administrators handed this very large task.
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- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)