SAS 014 – Disaster Recovery

In this episode I talk about the importance of being prepared for a disaster that takes your primary data center offline. Being prepared to keep IT systems operating during or after a disaster is critical What is DR, how does it work? How will you offer IT services if a fire destroys your data center? Email Voice Business Software Billing Accounts Payable Payroll CRM What servers will you use? How recent will the data on them be? What services and data will be available? This should be driven from management as a part of business continuity It should be driven by IT even if BC isn’t in place Hosting On premises, separate facility Up front cost Maintenance Space Data center Ongoing cost Maintenance Cloud Scope What needs to be included? Is restoring from nightly backups enough for some servers? RPO – recovery point objective RTO – recovery time objective Budget Testing Soft failover Hard failover   Final Thoughts DR should be considered a critical part of every IT infrastructure, make  sure you have it, that the scope is accurate and that it works. You can contact me by email [email protected] and twitter @sysadminshow. Thanks for listening!