Recent events have made clear the value of having a disaster recovery plan in place. An enterprise that implements an effective plan has a far better chance of survival than one that has given no thought to disaster recovery -- even in the most dramatic of IT disasters.
In this ServerWatch tutorial we will discuss disaster recovery from the perspective of corporate server management.
Although the goals of disaster recovery seem fairly obvious -- the restoration of IT functions and the business operations that depend on them -- it is a topic with a broad spectrum of issues. For starters, when we talk of disasters we usually mean dramatic physical disasters (e.g., fires, floods, and explosions) not your run-of-the-mill hard disk crash or power supply burnout that can be considered part of ordinary operations.
On the other hand, if a public utility company cuts a company's main data lines while digging a trench (as actually happened to one major airline), should it be considered a "disaster"? Not in the sense that a hurricane or fire is, but its effects can be just as disastrous for the company involved.
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