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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

My disaster recovery plan:

  1. I plan on not having a disaster.

  2. If I do have a disaster, I plan on trying to recover from it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We definitely have a DR plan at work that includes steps that must be performed at least one hour prior to the disaster occurring. Its quite a joke.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

All disasters must be scheduled ahead of time and receive approval in the disaster pre-approval process. Failure to do so prior to disaster means this is an unauthorized disaster, and the disaster recovery committee is not responsible for ad hoc incidents caused by improper planning

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

May i ask what these steps entail? And are there any horoscopes involved?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So, do they have these tasks performed every hour and redundant elsewhere or was this just bad planning a la “write the directions to make a PB&J” homework assignment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

But do you have a Disaster Plan Plan?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You've been testing it regularly, right?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least once every twenty years

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Make it every twenty-one years this Thursday

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Right on schedule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Gonna take it out to drink?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Is that book 1024 pages of Panic is progressively larger fonts?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Current disaster recovery plan:

Step 1: cry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the book is empty inside

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Inverse Murphy's Law dictates that if your disaster recovery plan is top notch, tested, rehearsed, refined, and you flip to the alternate site on a schedule then you'll never ever need it for real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"This tale is all of woe!"