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UIT Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise

The objective of the annual exercise is to verify disaster recovery objectives and gain greater understanding about disaster recovery (DR) capabilities in the cloud of key UIT enterprise services. The services in scope of this active exercise maintain production infrastructure on premises at the historical campus. Restrictions are put in place that force a predetermined group of users to the DR instances. The intent of this exercise is to test our ability to sustain critical services and business functions in the event that historical campus infrastructure was inaccessible or inoperable.

The Key Performance Indicator, RTO (Recovery Time Objective), is validated prior to the event and measured against results. This transparency allows service owners and UIT Leadership to understand the capabilities of these systems.

The goal for each annual event is to determine steps on a path to increased system resiliency, clarify and document system DR business requirements, and create alignment between recovery capabilities and expectations.

Note: The Annual DR Exercise results are viewable to UIT only. 

2023 DR Exercise

The 2023 DR exercise begins on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 8:30 a.m. and is expected to complete on the same day, by close of business. Some contingency hours will be reserved for the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, in case needed.

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2022 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2022 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2022 Results

2021 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2021 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2021 Results

2020 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2020 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2020 Results

2019 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2019 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2019 Results

2018 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2018 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2018 Results

2017 DR Exercise

View the results from the 2017 Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise.

View 2017 Results

Last modified October 9, 2023