{"id":596,"date":"2011-03-11T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Surveys-DR-plan-testing-and-considering-human-nature.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:53:37","slug":"surveys-dr-plan-testing-and-considering-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/surveys-dr-plan-testing-and-considering-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveys: DR plan testing and considering human nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The recent earthquake in New Zealand and this morning&#39;s devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan set off a lot of discussion on twitter about DR planning and testing. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I wrote a blog post on our SQL Server Magazine blog this morning asking people to think about their testing &#8211; see <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlmag.com\/blogs\/SQLServerQuestionsAnswered\/SQLServerQuestionsAnswered\/tabid\/1977\/entryid\/76235\/When-did-you-last-test-your-disaster-recovery-strategy\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;m conducting two surveys here. One is asking about testing your DR strategy and the other is asking about whether the DR strategy considers human nature in the event of a natural disaster. Depending on the disaster, people won&#39;t necessarily be thinking about the company as their first priority.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><br \/>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"90f5d45a-361e-4298-bb58-cb3536bed4aa\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"343\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"841879d9-50ea-4d3a-a680-6ed2a0b29252\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"293\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Feel free to leave comments about your DR strategy and testing experiences and I&#39;ll include some of them when I editorialize the results in a week or two. And by all means send me private email if you want to vent in more depth! (But nothing sent in email will be included in the editorial.)<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Thanks<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent earthquake in New Zealand and this morning&#39;s devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan set off a lot of discussion on twitter about DR planning and testing. I wrote a blog post on our SQL Server Magazine blog this morning asking people to think about their testing &#8211; see here. 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