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On Saturday, February 25 between 7:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., ICT will be conducting a disaster recovery exercise to help prepare and protect Laurier's IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
During this time, there will be intermittent outages to the following critical services:
The following services are not expected to be impacted:
Please contact the ICT Service Desk if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for your cooperation during this important exercise.
The Disaster Recovery (DR) Exercise is a test of the strategies and methods that we have developed for recovering Laurier's information technology (IT) systems and applications required to support priority business functions, and processes and services in case there was ever an emergency that brought them down.
During the exercise systems and services are shut down and are restored in an alternative data center to test our ability to migrate services and systems should a disaster occur. We then test the services to ensure they are fully operational before the changes are reverted.
The annual testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan is to ensure that the plan is up-to-date and reflects business and system changes that happen throughout the year.
A 12-hour maintenance window is scheduled for the exercise. Services will be intermittently affected during this time.
There is always the possibility that something could occur, and we conduct these exercises as a risk mitigation strategy.
During a disaster exercise, primary services are shut down as a simulation of a "disaster", this is the only way to test that the plan works, and services can be restored from the secondary location.