Re: Backup Policy

Cyndi,

Lets pretend that today is Wednesday and a disaster occurs at your building.
The building is in a state that you are denied permission to enter by
emergency services (fire, police, FEMA).  How would you reconstruct the data
from last week up to today?  You could be denied permission to enter the
building and retrieve your daily tapes due to (1.) an earthquake results in
structural damage, (2.) a chemical spill prohibits anyone in the area for
the next 3 days., (3.) a fire rages for longer than the safety rating of
your safe and the back up media is useless, (4.) a tornado results in
structural damage.  A true disaster recovery plan has consideration of
restoring at another site by using data, supplies, etc. that are secured
away from the normal business location.  I realize that the odds of these
types of events are quite low.  However, it is my understanding that nearly
80% of business that experience a disaster and are not able to recover their
critical applications and data are out of business within six months.

HTH

Richard Shealy
DCS Software and Services
800/999-2495




----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyndi Bradberry" <CyndiB@IHFA.ORG>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: Backup Policy


> We created our own procedure that does the equivalent of a Go SAVE 23 Save
> User Data. We submit everything to a JOBQ that is on hold and a separate
job
> checks the time to release the JOBQ. Whenever there is a change to the
> system, PTF's etc, someone comes in on the weekend and does a Go SAVE 22
> Save System Data Only. Once a week on Thursday, the tapes are sent to an
> off-site storage facility.  Daily tapes are kept in a Fire Vault in
another
> room. All tapes are rotated every three weeks.
> At this time, this appears to be working for us. We just moved from one
box
> to another, using the tapes produced as above.  Everything works fine.
> If you can poke holes in this, please let me know.
>
> Cyndi B.
> Boise, ID
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