Re: Year 2000 Disaster Recovery Plans

[therrin@xxxxxxxxx (Terry Herrin)]

"Mike Cornwell" <mike@mcornwell.com> wrote:
>How detailed are other companies being when putting together such plans? Do
>you base the plan on the fact that you have no computers at that time and
>devise completely manual systems? And what is the scope of this type of
>contingency plan? Do you plan for just a couple of days, a week, month, or
>indefinitely.

We have no contingency plan for all the computer systems being
non-functional, because quite frankly, I don't see how we could
continue to operate the business in a completely manual mode.  There's
simply too many systems and too much automation to continue operating
with no computer systems at all.  However, we have identified the
mission critical systems that we feel absolutely have to continue
running.  Those get priority for testing and verification for Y2K
capability.

>doing that. I have considered renting a system (we run an AS/400), loading
>our software onto it and attempting to duplicate our environment as much as
>possible and then setting it's date forward, testing the software, then
>wiping the system clean. Anyone else done anything like this?

We purchased an S20 system for Y2K testing.  After Y2K, it will become
a dedicated testing and development box. Our plan is to have all
mission critical applications tested by June 1st.

Terry Herrin
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
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