Re: Disaster Recovery Plan

[Øystein Mork <oystein () dataassistanse com>]

We have used ArcServe for a few years now in our firm, and combined with 
various tapedrives, this has provided us with a scaleable and fast way 
to back up our office environment.   We do a full backup of our storage 
areas every night, one tape for each day of the week.   The backups for 
the six previous days is stored in a fireproof safe onsite, and we 
replace one tape each month, which is stored off site.   We backup about 
300 gigs each night..

Other aspects of our disaster recovery includes ghosted images of  the 
various models of workstations (we only use a few different models) and 
a good and fast supplier of hardware so you can get things up and 
running again fast.

Oeystein



> Probably the easiest would be to make a copy of the monthly master and
> store the copy off site.  A better option might be to do a full backup
> weekly and incrementals each night.  At the end of the week, take the
> entire set and store it off site.  Bring the previous weeks backup back
> on site to reuse the tapes.
>
> Dennis  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ka55ad [mailto:ka55ad () gmail com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:53 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Disaster Recovery Plan
>
> Although this might be slightly off topic, I was wondering if anyone
> could give me some suggestions for some disaster recovery plans. Right
> now we are a small place (less than 50 employees total), and I am not
> comfortable with the current Disaster Recovery plan (it was created
> before I came on board). It basically involves performing a master
> backup on tape once a month and then doing a differential backup every
> week night. We have 2 sets of differential tapes that we keep off site
> and alternate every week, but the masters are not kept off site.
>
> I am working with a very limited budget. Can anyone recommend a good
> solution that will ease my worries? Thanks.
>
>  



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