• Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, June 22, 2017 11:36 AM

    Rod at work - Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:33 AM

    In my previous job because there was only 2 of us, we wore all the hats. We had a DR plan, we wrote it up and tested it. But in the job I'm in now, its a large IT shop, very position is specialized. I'm a developer here, so I've no idea what the DR plans are or if they're practiced. I would assume that they exist and have been at least once practiced. I kind of hate asking about it though, as I feel both like I'm walking on egg shells and also because I know I'll get the, "this isn't any of your business" speech. Which, in fairness, it isn't any of my business.

    I'd be sure I can recreate my stuff. Can I reproduce my dev work, is my VCS being backed up (I'd ask), and more. Might trigger others to be sure they can recover.

    Now that's something we didn't do at my old job - put the database into source control. As it turns out, it didn't bite us, but it could have. We dodged that bullet, well at least until I was laid off. Can't say what happened after that.

    As far as where I work currently, I don't know if databases are in source control or not.

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