Disaster Recovery Planning

1
Disaster Recovery Planning

• Presented by
• Hillcrest Technologies, Inc.

2
Basic Considerations

• Business impact of downtime
• Cost
• Technology Spending Rule of Thumb

3
Physical protection

• Fire/Flood
• A/C
• Power / UPS
• Security / Locked doors
• User/Data security

4
Be careful of who can do what

• Who are your administrators?
• No universal logon!
• Rights / permissions on resources

5
Contingency Planning

• Not just the servers anymore
• Workstations - what if one goes down?
• UPS - protect investment
• Store files on servers to protect against
  workstation downtime
• Networking equipment needs protection too.

6
Redundancy

• RAID
• Off-site backup / offsite backup tape rotation
• Spare parts- hard drives, fans, etc.
• Spare servers
• Clustering

7
Practice what you preach

• Make a plan and practice it
• Make sure you can back up and restore files, know
  how, and practice it
• Know how to recover from a full catastrophe

8
Advanced things

• ODC
• Off-site Hosting
• Test labs

9
More information

• For more information on this and other technology
  topics visit out website at www.hillcresttech.com
  or e-mail info_at_hillcresttech.com