Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery If you manage a computer facility, then you must understand there will be disasters. Be ready for them.

• Laying The Groundwork Before you can do anything to prepare for a disaster, it's a good idea to look around, see what's there and collect your thoughts.
• Convincing The Boss Before you can do anything to prepare for a disaster, it's a good idea to look around, see what's there and collect your thoughts.
• Getting Started You begin a disaster recovery project with analysis, design and a lot of help.
• A Case Study Our first attempt at creating a disaster site was a disaster. We then redid the whole project. This time, however, we learned from our mistakes and did it correctly.
• Checklist for Disaster Recovery There are many things you need to think about BEFORE a disaster occurs to make it possible to recover quickly if the worst happens.
• Examples Want some examples of disaster recovery scenarios? Here they are.
• Types of Disaster Recovery There are levels of disaster recovery: from nothing at all, to backups to a fully ready hot site.
• How To Protect Your Power I learned the hard way that it's important to give your computer clean, steady power.