Disaster Recovery by Tom Canavan

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity A.K.A

“The backup tapes are where?”

Tom Canavan

Disaster preparedness is what you do before, not after, a disaster hits.

Crackers/hackers are only part of your concern.

Disaster—the meaning of the word has its root in early Italian,

from the word disastro (Meaning away from star).

It was thought that an unfavorable position of a star or planet

was the cause of mishaps and calamities1

1 Robert K. Barnhart, “The Barnhart concise Dictionary of Etymology – The origins of American English words”,

(New York: HarperCollins books, 1995) 208

4-19-1995Murrah Bldg

Okla City

9-11-2001Ground Zero

8/28/2005Hurricane Katrina

Recent and Terrible Disasters

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Why does it matter?

A 1978 Study by the University of Minnesota showed that if a business could not recover

their systems within a week,

will be out of business in a year.

That’s only four to six days

of interruption of services in 1978

Disaster Planning Life Cycle

DetermineRisks

DocumentYour

Business

BuildYourplan

Test & document

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Agenda

• Disaster recovery vs Business Continuity• Defining Disaster Levels• Backups are intended for recovery Identifying

risks in your website• Managing risk to increase uptime• Human Factor• “Lock the doors”• Joomla! – DR / BC• pandemic