data recovery after the earthquake

I stumbled across a blog post today from Christopher Well’s vSamurai blog titled Real Life DR & BC, with VMware SRM.  The title isn’t nearly descriptive enough: he gives details about how he used VMware Site Recovery Manager after the 9.0 earthquake in Japan to move their data centre operations from one site to another.  Their data recovery efforts in their virtual infrastructure were successful.

Now that I’m thinking about disaster recovery, I should go check on my own earthquake-preparedness kit at home …