When A DR Test Goes Wrong
AITHORITY, Monday, November 25th, 2024
Sometimes a DR test goes wrong for no reason; sometimes it's because of our own actions. Just ask Paul Van Dyke, the IT supervisor at Kodiak Island Borough in Alaska, who decided to perform what might be the boldest storage reorganization project I've ever heard of.
The Setup: A Real Disaster Recovery Test Begins
Back in 2001, Paul had five Compaq ML370 servers. He noticed his storage usage was uneven across the servers - some barely used their 45GB RAID arrays while others were running out of space. His solution? Completely reorganize the drives across all servers at once. This, of course, meant deleting all his data and then restoring it.