Chapter 22. Disaster Planning
Smart SCUBA divers dive with a "buddy" and carry an alternate air source, even though they’ve trained extensively and checked their equipment thoroughly. Schools and businesses have fire drills even though the vast majority of buildings never burn down. Similarly, system administrators sincerely hope they’ll never need the verified backups and Automated System Recovery disks they have spent so much time creating. Nevertheless, we keep them because there are only two types of networks: those that have experienced disaster and those that haven’t—yet.
Disaster can take many forms, from the self-inflicted pain of a user or administrator doing something really, really ...
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