This week studying for the Microsoft MCTS Exam for 70-515 Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.  Last week great progress was made as I 'cracked the code'.  Now understanding building classes and methods has become much better.  I am next moving onto building  MVC webpages, using Interfaces and more.

In my last post I wrote about understanding YOUR Disaster Recovery Plan.  It is important that you fully cover every eventuality in your plan from the worst to the smaller incidents.  A basic precept in Disaster Recovery is utitilize a facility that is 25 miles or greater from your Data Center as your Secondary site which will house your Disaster Recovery resources.  As I mentioned earlier, you may decide to put your site in another building nearby, but this secondary site can be affected by the same factors as your primary site or headquarters.  I saw recently that a fire in a building in Boston, MA took out the power to building in six to ten blocks in all directions.  If your company was in the area and your secondary site was nearby, that building too could have lost power. 

So first you have selected your facility outside the 25-Mile radius of your Data Center.  The next important step is to build your Disaster Recovery Plan.  If you build the plan first before purchasing the exact software/hardware necessary you can avoid having to waste monies or not have a robust enough solution.  Remember when a disaster happens you normally are not thinking clearly or you are feeling a lot of pressure by the company executives to restore business continuity.  So a well thought out and documented plan will allow you or someone to start at step 1 and go through the plan without having to discuss/troubleshoot or configure systems from scratch.

In my next entry i'll start going over all the items you must consider when building your plan. 

Please put your thoughts and comments on my entries.  Have you ever built a DR Plan?  Is this topic interesting you?  Comments are welcome!