[SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun

[Ken Hansen]

Just think it through - what would you need to start over again, if you had
to...

- What hardware would you need, where would you get it, and how would you
pay for it?

- What software do you use - is it licensed to a CPU? How would you get a
repalcement
  license if need be?

- How much downtime can you afford? 24 hours is a nice place to hang your
hat, but it
is very expensive...

- Where would you go, if the building was inaccessible?

- How would phone calls be handled?

- How will you communicate with workers, both the workers needed to rebuild
the
  environment and those who should stay home until further notice.

- Will displaced workers be compensated, up to a certain point?

- Network connectivity - how to recover/re-direct traffic to new machines?

Many folks define several levels of disaster, and then fill in the above
blanks for each scenario:

 - the servers are damaged
- the building is partially destroyed
- the building is totally destroyed
- a virus has brought every system into question (so the environment will
need to be
  rebuilt in-place)

This is the quick version.

The only difference between a BCP for a small comapny and a big company are
that bigger companies have more $$ to spend, more employees to assist, if
needed, and they usually have multiple locations, eliminating the need to
secure available space near-by.

Every item a big company has to plan for, so does a small one - but for
small companies, the answers are easier to implement.

HTH (my company is going through this process now...),

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dunbar" <Brian.Dunbar at Plexus.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun


> >>Dave, if you have two companies and a dozen people relying on *that
> particular* Sun4c box, you have failed to plan for a disaster, IMHO.<<
>
> To take this even more off-topic;
>
> My company doesn't have a disaster plan (this was brought home to me last
> week during a pre-audit).  Oh, the monthly backups go home with the
sysadmin
> (me) as well as 1/2 of the archive tapes.  But that doesn't begin to
address
> the hows and whys of restarting operations in the even that our building
is
> cratered or somesuch.
>
> I *know* this is a Bad Thing and we are just begging to be struck by
> lighting.  Any resources to look at for smaller/midsize companies who need
> to do a BCP on a shoestring?
>
> brian
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