BCP (Disaster/Recovery) Work
Certainly one of the more interesting things I've ever worked on is the Business Continuity Planning or BCP for short. It's called a ton of things in different shops, but it's always the same thing - What happens if the building is wiped out?
Where I'm at now, we have sites around the world, so the obvious BCP plan is to make one of the other sites the BCP site for the main production facilities. The easiest way to do this is to have the secondary site active at all times then switching over is as simple as redirecting a few clients, etc. So, that's what I'm doing. Now, I've known that this needed to be done for months and months, but the management never really gave me a lot of time to do it. Now, with audits looming in the future, it seems that now is the perfect time.
The interesting things I'd like to put into this BCP plan are really more like hot fail-over plans so that we can tell that the plan will be easy to execute because we can see that the hardware and software are functioning every day as they are intended to. However, that means that I need to do a lot of work to get things to this point. That's been my day today. Nothing fancy - just a lot of details that need to be looked into, and done to get the systems up in the other locations. It's certainly not glamorous, but it's what needs to be done.