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Exchange Disaster Recovery event @ Microsoft Campus UK

I'm delivering an Exchange disaster recovery event in the UK in December and we've been owerwhelmed by the responses to the event.  It has been very well subscribed, and this makes me wonder if there aren't enough prescriptive guidance documents available on strategies showing how you cope in the case of a catastrophic  event. 

We've got a couple of documents detailing how to recover from disasters.  The Disaster Recovery Operations guide explains how to back up and restore critical data, whilst the Whitepaper on using recovery storage groups allows you to recover data from an older backup copy of the database without disturbing access to current data.  I got these documents, amongst others from the Exchange documentation library but I wondered, do we need to run more "how to recover from disaster" type events like this one, or do we need to produce more documentation?  If so, what would we need in addition to what's already out there on the web?  It would be interesting to know.

Published Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:42 PM by Eileen_Brown
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:00 PM by --MR

# re: Exchange Disaster Recovery event @ Microsoft Campus UK

It would help if the documentation wasn't so poor. We need more documentation matching common disaster scenarios directly to restore procedures, in all formats including paper, webcast and anything else you can dream up.

The DROG has lots information but under what scenario do I use those procedures? Case in point - why does the DROG refer you to another document for dial tone restore? Wouldn't most people prefer dial tone restore/RSG over waiting for a large database to restore from tape? Why does DROG go into absurd detail about the poor approach and totally omit the good one?

Short answer: Align the common disaster scenarios to the recovery procedures and publish in all formats possible.
Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:29 AM by Eileen Brown's WebLog

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