Disaster
Recovery

Disasters can take many forms. Loss of a laptop with customer sensitive data onboard while traveling to make a crucial presentation would certainly qualify. Power outage that lasts hours would qualify. Ask your favorite pessimist about what could go wrong and new possibilities becomes  apparent. What is certain is that disasters are never invited, and can negatively impact a business if a plan for remediation is not in place.

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Remediation plans can take many forms. The scope of the disaster will dictate where and how the plan comes to be, and where it is best stored. Remediation for building emergencies, such as fire or flood, would be different then a server crash or lost of computing capability.  Naber Networks can help design and publish a variety of remediation plans.

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In the course of operations, Naber Networks had a discussion of redundancy some time ago. It is recounted here as an example of forward thinking. Electrical power was the topic. The lesson taken was data centers should not be in the same town, often one power feed line serves. Crossing state lines (in the U.S.) would not suffice either. Regional considerations for earthquake, nuclear power failure, wind blown radiation means consideration of the plates underground is not too extreme.

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Another example was a Super Signaling 7 link, crucial to telecommunications from two different providers in two different cable plants were thwarted by the drilling of a power pole hole at a railroad crossing. Where both providers happen to use that roadway to bridge the tracks. Both services were cut, at a distant of some miles from the actual switch!

 

Implementation of remediation brings additional concerns. What is crucial is that people know where the plans are located, and they exist in multiple places. Think it through, if the plan is stored only on the drive that just failed, is it any good? Also consider the people who will implement the plan, are they authorized with the proper credentials to be successful? 

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Having backup files is not enough, when was the last time a disaster plan was tested? Talk with Naber Networks for more.

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