RE: Re: Site management/ e-commerce (long letter)

The reason you dont have to back up your Dreamweaver program and take it off 
premises, is because you have the CD and you can reinstall it if disaster 
strikes.   All you need to back up and take off premises is the stuff you've 
developed.   If you have a disaster, you don't want to have to go back and 
re-do all your work, all your tweaking, all your preferences, all the 
customising.

Not really pertinent to this discussion because it's about a huge system, 
but I find it interesting anyway ....

There was a celebrated case here in Sydney a few years ago when the main 
Toyota spare parts warehouse was burned to the ground in a spectacular fire 
that had traffic in chaos at morning peak hour.  The IT area, which serviced 
not just that warehouse but also the warehouses in probably half a dozen 
other locations was right in the middle of the building.   So those other 
warehouses were also put out of commission by the Sydney fire.  Not entirely 
closed down, but doing business was difficult for them without their IT 
systems.

But Toyota's IT people had a good disaster plan and believe it or not they 
were fully functional again by lunchtime the same day from another site.   
They had good backups off premises and all they had to do was turn up at the 
'hot site' with their backups and get started again.

They operated from that 'hot site' for some months until their building was 
re-built and they could move back in.

This is normal for large systems - they will frequently test their plans by 
simulating a disaster and checking that they can rebuild their IT operations 
inside half a day or whatever their plan calls for.  Some companies do it 
twice a year.

<soapbox>
But certainly we ought to look to protecting our investment in customising 
and in our web sites.    As it happens, by the very nature of our business 
many of us keep our web sites on someone else's systems so it's only the 
source files and original logos etc we need to back up.   We can get the web 
site back by just downloading it from the server.   Imagine all the work 
you've done over the last 6 months, and what the implications would be if 
you had to get that all back somehow.
</soapbox>

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au
( ...who has a friend in the continuity planning business and hears this 
lecture weekly.  So why should you get out of it?)


>

>
>Hi Phil,
>
>This is done so that, in the event of a disaster (fire/theft/terrorist
>attack/plague/whatever) a business's critical information assets
>remain available and the business can continue to operate.  Usually
>it's part of a bigger disaster recovery plan (e.g. having a backup
>data center, network, etc.)
>
>I've worked for a company who regularly transports a copy of
>their backup media to a facility in a different state. Others
>just take the medium and put it into a safety deposit box.
>
>David Clapper
>
>|--- Original Message ---
>|From: "Phil Babcock" <pbabcock(at)bgsgroup.com>
>|To: choicemag(at)hotmail.com, dgtlboy(at)erols.com, "hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org"
><hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>|Date: 4/18/00 1:06:56 PM
>|
>
>|>(4)  BACK UP YOUR TEMPLATES AND STYLE SHEETS.  THEN COPY THEM
>ONTO A ZIP
>|>DRIVE OR SOMETHING AND TAKE THEM OFF PREMISES.
>|
>|
>|This is interesting... why would you take them off premises?
>|
>|
>|Phil Babcock
>|Lead Web Designer
>|BGS Group Inc.
>|
>|
>
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