Disaster Recovery Plan

We have been asked to come up with a disaster recovery plan. I would like to get an idea of what other users have in place. We are looking at not only a back up plan for the data, but ways to be able to process a payroll in the event of a disaster. Thoughts, ideas?

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plancor

We are working on this same process. Our initial thoughts:
-After a payroll is closed, duplicate the database to another product line
-Use a crystal report (output to excel) that will calculate all employees' base wages (for example, normal hourly employees will receive 80 hours for the biweekly payroll, salaried employees will receive their base salary)
-Use add-ins to upload the excel data to PR35.2.
-Process this payroll in the duplicated product line through the PR160
-Save the PR160 data file (the one that gets sent to our bank) to a removable device
-Include the removable device with the backup tapes that get sent to our offsite data storage location.

In the case of a disaster, we could send the saved PR160 file to the bank, and employees would get paid their base biweekly wages. After the disaster, overtime and such would be squared and paid.

These are very preliminary thoughts and will require much more planning. I'm curious if others have better solutions.

unknown

Colleen, I was the Lawson Sys admin in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and several lessons were learned on disaster recovery. We had the bank process the previous ACH payroll file. It was the quickest way to get employees paid with the system offline. Once Lawson was back online payroll made all the adjustments.

unknown

We have our production server duplicated on another server and then backup to tape. In addition, we have a conference room with generator supported outlets, should the electricity fail (as it did in Sandy).

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pbuckley

For those of you who use the previous ACH file to pay in a disaster, could you respond with the size of your organization.....How many employees do you pay? And, do you typically pay standard, set hours or do the hours fluxuate (meaning do you have a lot of perdiem or flex employees that work different hours each pay)?

unknown

(Those are good questions - reprocessing a previous ACH file would not work for us due to the number of individuals whose pay varies and is charged to varying places depending on where they are working / what they are doing.) I'm not a SysAdmin, so don't have all the technical terms, but we are running "hot" at two separate data centers physically located far apart. Any disruption at one data center causes a "fail-over" to the alternate with only a few minutes of slow response to the customers. Could a major regional weather event disrupt both data centers at the same time? Possibly, but the chance is pretty low.

unknown

We had a little over 1800 emoployees with serveral pay rules involved. We had no B/U data Center, so this was our only solution until power was restored.

christopher-bush

MHC offers a diaster recovery plan. We are currently in the process of working out a diaster recovery plan with them for printing payroll checks and some purchase order processing incase of hurricanes and any other type disaster where we might not be able to process.

We also have a plan in place where key personnel take the printers and laptops home and print from there, if a disaster happens on a payroll week.
The MHC is in the case we cannot print for any reason with the plan described.
We are a hosted site and our servers reside in the cloud.

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