Disaster Recovery Plan

We're running xMII 11.5 SP3 in a three-tiered centralized server environment (Development, Staging and Production).  We plan on having a project up and running in production by October 1.  Before we do so, however, we need to develop a disaster recovery plan in the event of a failure of our production server.  Our staging server is in a different city and we plan on using it as our temporary production server.
Does anyone have any recommendations on putting together a disaster recovery plan for this scenario?
Thanks!

Dave,
Good to see you active on the forums, hope all is well...
As for disaster recovery the procedures will follow along similar to your roll out plan, where content is moved from Dev -> Staging -> Prod.  The main difference will be that you will have to reconfigure the xMII system.  In 11.5 this is all file based XML files in the following directories:
<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\conf
<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\sysconf
<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Illuminator\properties
<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Security\*
<Drive>:\Lighthammer\Xacute\Configuration
These are the main ones, there may be others depending on your development specifics.
Hope this helps.
-Sam

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