Comments on: Do You Have a Failover Plan? http://technosailor.com/2008/04/29/do-you-have-a-failover-plan/ Web Technology and Real Life Merge Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Dave Zatz http://technosailor.com/2008/04/29/do-you-have-a-failover-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-211520 Dave Zatz Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:44 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=2570#comment-211520 Fun stuff... At a different government alphabet soup agency, I assisted putting together two unit COOPs and periodically ran those drills. Frickin' stressful, but even if the building and the occupants aren't destroyed - it's still likely something out of your control will bring you down, like a block-wide power outages, ISP outage, flakey update. In both cases, we had warm sites not hot. Which was a liability justified via budget and usage. For my personal stuff, I have local images and remote cloud data backup. I'm not entirely pleased with my solution, but as long as I have access to a web browser I'm mostly in business. Fun stuff… At a different government alphabet soup agency, I assisted putting together two unit COOPs and periodically ran those drills. Frickin’ stressful, but even if the building and the occupants aren’t destroyed – it’s still likely something out of your control will bring you down, like a block-wide power outages, ISP outage, flakey update. In both cases, we had warm sites not hot. Which was a liability justified via budget and usage.

For my personal stuff, I have local images and remote cloud data backup. I’m not entirely pleased with my solution, but as long as I have access to a web browser I’m mostly in business.

]]> By: lnxcwby http://technosailor.com/2008/04/29/do-you-have-a-failover-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-211418 lnxcwby Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:09:47 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=2570#comment-211418 I'm the IT guy at my company (small place, with about 35 employees), and I have gotten all of the business and engineering servers virtualized (finally) so backing up is a matter of taking a differential snapshot of the vMachines at either location to a RAIDed backup server at the other location. That's nightly. Once a week, I also swap out one of the RAID1 mirror drives and take it offsite to try and avoid catastrophic loss of data. It's not quite as automated as I would like, but it works. I’m the IT guy at my company (small place, with about 35 employees), and I have gotten all of the business and engineering servers virtualized (finally) so backing up is a matter of taking a differential snapshot of the vMachines at either location to a RAIDed backup server at the other location. That’s nightly. Once a week, I also swap out one of the RAID1 mirror drives and take it offsite to try and avoid catastrophic loss of data. It’s not quite as automated as I would like, but it works.

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