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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

But do you have a Disaster Plan Plan?

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

You've been testing it regularly, right?

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

At least once every twenty years

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make it every twenty-one years this Thursday

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right on schedule

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

Gonna take it out to drink?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Current disaster recovery plan:

Step 1: cry

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

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

And the book is empty inside

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

"This tale is all of woe!"