My week at HTC has been filled with hurricane contengency planning and preparation. Â For the most part, HTC is in a good state with two connected datacenters about 15 miles from each other and real-time replication for much of our data. Â
Most of our planning is revolving around protecting the things that aren’t stretched or don’t have good roll-over plans between data centers. Â In the past year, we’ve closed the gap on a lot of things that didn’t exist or couldn’t easily roll between datacenters. Â VMware has been a big portion of that change and it makes disaster recovery much better. Â
Today we’re running full backups and preparing and full set of backup tapes to be physically taken away with one of our managers and preparing to move a few redundant servers to the contengency site as a safety precaution. Â
I’m interested – what are your preparations and what things would you be doing in our situation?
