[NTLUG:Discuss] Disaster recovery

[Chris Cox]

David I S Mandala wrote:
> I start at the lowest level and document the hard disk layout with
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/???? Then I document the fstab. From there I document all
> installed software and versions, and I keep going up from there. I
> document all settings in /etc.

And the biggest mistake in most DR plans... you really need LIKE boxes
or ALL bets are off.

So.. if you are maintaining multiple DR sites, make sure when you buy
equipment that you buy enough for all of the sites so you can have
full failover.

My guess is that the original post might not be talking about
true DR though... so this might be overkill if your simply wanting
pseudo-DR on the cheap (DR is VERY expensive... more than the cost of your
company's security budget... probably more than 5-10 years worth
of that budget!).