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Theo Kouwenhoven

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Hello Theo kouwenhoven,

Suppose if you have HA tool in place for the systems from PROD to DR  , how do  follow DR to PROD if unexpected circumstances occurs to PROD ?

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Avinash Chandra
Gary Patterson, CISSP

I'm not Theo, but as I said above THERE IS NO ONE SIMPLE ANSWER.  

It depends on how your DR process was designed and implemented.  It depends on what you are and are not replicating.  It may depend on your network and DNS setup.  There is no way anyone can tell you how to revert to your DR system without careful inspection (and testing) of the configuration and state of each system.

For example, I have one client with a very, very simple DR setup (data-only replication).  To revert to the DR system, they have to:

1) Restore a set of specific libraries and objects to the DR system from specific backups.
2) Enable a set of batch scheduled jobs (some are application-specific) on the DR system.
3) Start a number of services (some are application-specific) on the DR system.
4) Start production subsystems and print writers on the DR system.
5) Change DNS for the production system to point to the IP of the DR system.
6) Restart specific services running on other systems to force them to pick up the new IP address from DNS.

Your list will probably be different, but those are examples of some possible actions.  If you don't have a written DR process, you really need to figure it out and create one.  If you don't have adequate skills in-house to develop a written DR process, you should probably bring in an expert to help you.
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