July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 38m
English
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Chapter 23
Planning for Disaster
IN THIS CHAPTER
Looking at the types of disasters that can impact your organization
Considering the impact of a disaster
Developing a plan to survive a disaster
On April Fools’ Day about 30 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 Computers R Us 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 brought us right back to where we were on March 31. Without that backup, getting back on track would ...
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