In 2010, we presented a plan to a law firm to expand its Backup and Disaster Recovery system (DR) into a Business Continuity system (BC). Disaster Recovery enables a business to resume operations after a disaster concludes; Business Continuity allows the business to operate during and after the disaster. Continue reading “By Planning Ahead, Businesses Can Survive Disasters”
Anatomy of Disaster Recovery
Jersey City, November, 2001. It could have been yesterday. I was working for Credit Suisse. “You’re a DBA. A database system is down. Go fix it.” said my boss. On site, I replaced the failed drives – there were two – reconfigured the systems, reloaded from backups, tested and verified functionality, documented my findings, and headed home. Continue reading “Disaster Recovery Without Virtualization or the Cloud”