Danger Ahead: Disaster Planning for the CCCU

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Danger AheadDisaster Planning for the CCCU

• Chris Martin, Northwest University
• Gary Holeman, LeTourneau University
• Paul Dupree, Asbury College

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Why are we here?

• The growing complexity of our technology
  provisions demand that we prepare for worst
  case scenarios
• How do we leverage our CCCU membership and the
  relationships we have formed with each other for
  positive institutional and personal and spiritual
  benefit?

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Recent Campus Examples

• LeTourneau and Hurricane Rita Fall 2005
• Asbury College Sprint network cut-over Spring
  2006

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Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Hurricane
Rita

• Communication with Constituents
• Northwest University and Asbury College
• Consultation Sanity Check
• Off-site web hosting
• Information hotline hosting
• Course Management System hosting
• Redirection of phone systems
• Email to parents
• Posting regular updates

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Disaster Preparedness Ongoing Services

• Service Failover (web, course management systems,
  etc.)
• Redirecting mail, network and phone traffic

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Well it wont happen to me

• Four Category 3 hurricanes in the last year with
  at least four more projected for 2006.
• Earthquakes, Fire, Tornado, Flood, Power failure
  we are all vulnerable to a catastrophe

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How can we help each other?

• Individual campus plans
• Up to date?
• Models to follow How do we prepare and share?
• Regional Plans
• Regional Peer support
• Vendor supplied options?
• National Plans
• CCCU Foundations Program (need a name)

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SafetyNet Program

• Peer-oriented, CCCU partners
• Cross-regional partners form the foundation for
  your disaster recovery plan
• South/West
• East/Midwest etc.

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Possible SafetyNet Services

• DNS/Mail MX backups
• Web failover hosting
• Telephone information/voicemail
• Tape exchange
• Off-site storage in our fire-proof environments
• Learning Management System hosting
• Moodle/Sakai implementations

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Future Ideas

• Forming regional crisis response teams
• Bringing in needed gear, fuel, manpower
• Creating a consortium and purchasing two or three
  SAN systems with dedicated space and high-speed
  network for landing backups to remote
• And??????

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Interested? Whats the next step?

• Discussion and approval by home institutional
  administration
• Ensure we meet auditing, state, denominational
  requirements
• Creation of charter, peer agreement paperwork
• Website/Email list?