February 2016
Beginner
912 pages
20h 9m
English
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Chapter 9
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
In This Chapter
Realizing the need for backups
Making a plan
Practicing disaster recovery
Remembering tape rotation and other details
On April Fools’ Day about 20 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that some loser had broken into the office the night before and pounded our computer equipment to death with a crowbar. (I’m not making this up.)
Sitting on a shelf right next to the mangled piles of what used to be a Wang minicomputer system was an undisturbed disk pack that contained the only complete backup of all the information that was on the destroyed computer. The vandal didn’t realize that one more swing of the crowbar would have escalated this major inconvenience into a complete catastrophe. Sure, we were up a creek until we could get the computer replaced. And in those days, you couldn’t just walk into your local Computer Depot and buy a new computer off the shelf — this was a Wang minicomputer system that had to be specially ordered. After we had the new computer, though, a simple restore from the backup disk ...
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