[PLUG] OT: Hotsites/coldsites

[Michael Luevane]

Ah. I see. No formal audit here :)

That's interesting to know, tho. Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Stafford A. Rau
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:16 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Hotsites/coldsites


* Michael Luevane <mikel at quantecllc.com> [030227 14:28]:
> Our goal is to have procedures in place so that we can quickly recover
from
> some event that negatively impacts our ability to do business. It might be
> downed phone lines. It might be that our Internet access has been
> temporarily cut off. Or it might be that our building was kidnapped by
> aliens over the weekend as a prank.
>
> We need to be able to get business up and running in the shortest, most
> cost-effective timeframe.
>
> As far as DR facilities in Portland being "too close", if anything
happened
> to our building that also affected some hotsite in another part of the
metro
> area, then we'd probably be dead, and it wouldn't matter.
>
> So, I'm looking for something in the Portland area :P

And that's probably perfectly fine for your needs. I just wanted to point
that for anyone who is doing DR and may need to satisfy formal audit
requirements, it's a whole different story.

--Stafford

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