RE: Disaster Recovery

A couple of additional remarks. Not every company can work with a disaster
recovery site.

I have some clients, where they have massive amounts of constantly changing
data. In a DR situation, you restore your most recent backups after
everything else is ready; in the best case,  you'll probably be 2 days
behind, if not more. This is too long for these clients. You have to know
the business model before you can lay out the DR plan. Adding Windoze NT
into the mix (restoring domain controllers, exchange, etc., etc.,) and you
may not have a realistic recovery in less than a week. 

For those types of situations, the costs of "online hotsites" can be very
high. It's probably cost effective to explore solutions with vendors who
already do this kind of work: IPP, ISP, that sort of operation -- where they
have massive bandwidth, lots of phone lines, super UPS, AC, etc., etc. You
might want to check out renting space from them, dropping in a rack or two,
hooking up dedicated bandwidth, and keeping your data sync'd up (including
exchange, BDCs, and the like). Be flexible, but plan, plan, plan  and...

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:14 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery

4.      Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.
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