The exercise includes taking down the Banner student information system, simulating an actual outage of the service, to assess each step of the recovery process. The simulation will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 10, with a 24-hour test period. This test period will end at 6 p.m. Saturday evening, at which time, a recovery period will begin. The recovery period runs for 24 hours, ending at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 12. 

Students, faculty, and staff should expect downtime and delays for Banner throughout the test and recovery periods. 

Performing routine recovery drills is a best practice within disaster recovery planning and helps to ensure the ongoing health of mission critical technology services and organizational readiness in the case of a real disaster. Disaster recovery planning is an essential component of the Institute’s overall emergency preparedness plan and helps to:

• Minimize disruption to academic instruction and operations during a large-scale event.
• Ensure coordinated training, collaboration, and preparation among technical teams, functional owners, and communications staff.
• Ensure optimal restoration of services.
• Ensure compliance and alignment with the University System of Georgia and Georgia Tech emergency preparedness plans. 

Plans for future disaster recovery exercises are forthcoming. 

Up-to-date progress will be shared via https://status.gatech.edu during the 48-hour exercise window.