Lab 10 Disaster Recovery Plan

Note: We are using Virtual Machines for this class. As such a full backup does not make sense from the Windows Server perspective. If we are doing a full backup of the machine we would perform that backup at the VM level with full backups, checkpoints or even cloud services. In this lab we will focus on data and configuration! You may find that previous lab write-up contain useful information. You may link to that information when appropriate.

In your documentation wiki create a new page called "Disaster Recovery Plan". Make sure to include the following as pages. If you have questions about what to include or what to skip for each document ask me in class.

1. "Disaster Recovery Solution Overview Document" (see p.1249 in text)
   1. Consider that we want to backup the Active Directory
   2. Consider that we want to backup data and configuration information for all services! (Good question: How would you recover DHCP configuration? Hint: Write a script!)
   3. Consider all services installed so far as critical.
   4. There are no SLAs at this time.
   5. Don't forget to estimate the internal staffing and resource assignment and utilization for deployment and ongoing utilization.
2. Create links to your Enterprise Documentation (We have been creating this all along, but if you don't have it now, create it).
3. Develop a Backup Strategy (See p. 1251 in text) You may do "cross backups" for now to other servers.

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