Disaster Planning and Recovery
Disaster types
- Acts of god (e.g. earthquake, fire, flood)
- Human (e.g. power loss, terrorist act, bulldozer)
budget = disaster cost * disaster probability
Actions:
- Minimize possibility of damage (e.g. using rack-mounted components makes
servers less susceptible to earthquake damage,
an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) will guard against power fluctuations)
- Preparedness
- Disaster recovery plan
- Backup data centre