RE: Disaster Recovery

I recently read a document that had the following recommendations for either 
backup sites or offsite storage location:

- US Securities and Exchange Commission: 250 miles
- US Homeland Security: 500 miles

These are much farther than anything we recommended in the past.

Kendall Kinnear
Consulting System i5 Architect
Stonebridge

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Darrell A Martin" <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 7/14/06 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery

Greetings:

I send a copy of the overnight incremental backup tape to our satellite 
warehouse each morning in an anti-static bag (because we discard dozens of 
those every day) to be stashed in a sturdy waterproof box. This is in 
addition to the weekly data, and monthly full system, backups which are 
held by our commercial off-site backup storage vendor. The incremental 
tapes are rotated weekly. Our data loss risk should our main facility be 
suddenly and totally wiped out is therefore:

        until 8:00 a.m. - can lose changes back to previous day at 1:00 
a.m.
        after 8:00 a.m. - can lose changes back to today at 1:00 a.m.

The satellite warehouse is 0.9 miles away. If both buildings were 
similarly situated in Canada, they would be about 1.5 kilometres apart. If 
a small asteroid hits between them we will have some difficulties keeping 
the business going.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  754-2187
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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