I arrived in Philadelphia late Sunday afternoon and departed for home Wednesday morning.  During this time span I managed to get a cumulative total of 12 hours of sleep.  "What accounts for my sleep deprivation" you ask?  "Too much caffeine in my system?"  Well, yes, but the main culprit is our yearly disaster recovery test.

Our test began Monday morning at 8 a.m. and ran for the next 48 hours.  During this time we recovered an ERP system, a database cluster,  a data warehouse, Exchange, and miscellaneous third-party applications.  I'm happy to report we were largely successful with our recovery meeting all of our primary objectives.

Below I will outline principles we followed to make this exercise as successful as it was.  I also will lay out several suggestions that had we followed would have made it even more efficient.

See the full article at:  http://informedcio.com/2008/05/13/lesson-from-dr.aspx