Disaster Recovery Testing

GREETINGS AND WELCOME!

Disaster Recovery Testing

• Approaches– CO-LO Arrangement– DR Site Subscription (3rd Party)– Self Hosted– Others?

• Pros and Cons to approaches listed– $$– Technical Expertise– Maintenance– Communication Bandwidth– Others?

Remember Security!

• Data Replication Methods (Miser and Supporting Systems)– RDB– VTS– Non Miser Data Replication Options i.e. Commvault etc. – SAN– Combinations– Others?

• Pros and Cons to Replication Methods– $$– Complexity/Ease of Use– Recovery Process– Others?

Disaster Recovery Testing

Disaster Recovery Testing

• Automation– Customized Scripts– SMA Op/Con (Enterprise Scheduler)

• See VYSTAR CU for more on OpCon and how the automated close to 100% of the recovery process!!!

– B&L Scheduler– Others?

• Real Life Experience – Let’s Talk!!– Deb Slavens (United Federal Credit Union) dslavens@unitedfcu.com– Michael Jahn (Eastern Savings Bank) mjahn@easternsavingsbank.com– Fred McCardell (Jean D’ Arc Credit Union) fred.mccardell@jdcu.com– Open

About UsUnited Federal Credit Union

• Established in 1949• HQ in St. Joseph, Michigan• Asset size 1.5 Billion• 118,000+ Members• 23 branches in six states• 480 + employees

Disaster Recovery SolutionUnited Federal Credit Union

• DR Handled In-House

• 2 Metered FS 1800 machines

• AT&T OPT-E-MAN circuit to DR location (200+ shared Megabits/sec)

• Unisys RDB

• RDB configured for Audit Block Write Mode utilizing BNA

Testing Strategy: Prepare Environment United Federal Credit Union

TEST User code

Load copy of

production

Enable and configure

RDB

Enable Remote

Log Backup

Replicate production interfaces

Produce activity

Run nightly production

Testing Strategy: Transaction Center United Federal Credit Union

Testing Strategy: Database Operation Center United Federal Credit Union

View remote auditing status on MISDB and

ATMDB

Verify ABSN on secondary DB matches

current ABSN of the primary DB

Perform host takeover

Future Strategy United Federal Credit Union

Perform Takeover in a Production Environment

Develop Dynamic DNS for Third Party Vendors

Alternate Production Between Hosts

Q & A United Federal Credit Union

Disaster Recovery Testing

• Notes

• Key Contacts and Follow up Remember Security!

THANK YOU

Brad Grantbgrant@wingsfinancial.com952-997-8198