December 17, 2001 [Number 221]     Printable version (379k PDF)

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Recent Disaster Recovery Test

CIT’s most recent disaster recovery test at the hot-site on November 1 and 2, 2001, was successful and provided useful experience for all participants. The first day was dedicated to the restoration of the Titan, South, and EOS environments at the hot site, and the second day was set aside for customer testing of application recovery procedures.

Preparations by CIT

Titan System
CIT performed the first full restore of the Titan system. In the first test of the complete recovery procedures, the team encountered only minor problems that were easily rectified.

South System
During the restore of the South system, the team encountered problems restoring some South tapes. The team was able to work around the problem and will use this experience to enhance CIT disaster preparedness.

EOS Systems
CIT successfully restored the EOS environment and three customer databases. A limitation in the amount of available disk space required some changes in procedures.

Testing by Customers

Customer testing on Titan, South, and EOS went smoothly with only minor glitches. Because their ISPF profiles were not on any of the volumes that were restored, some customers had problems logging into Titan. After the recovery team rectified the problem, customers could log on and completed their tests. One of our EOS customers had a very successful test, with a DHHS auditor from the office of the Inspector General looking on. The customer successfully used CONNECT:Direct to test communications between the restored EOS and South systems.

Tests in 2002

Disaster recovery tests at the hot-site are scheduled for March 27 and November 13.