http://technosailor.disqus.com/enWed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:44 -0000http://technosailor.com/2008/04/29/do-you-have-a-failover-plan/#comment-928701855<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>Dave ZatzWed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:44 -0000http://technosailor.com/2008/04/29/do-you-have-a-failover-plan/#comment-928701853<p>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.</p>lnxcwbyWed, 30 Apr 2008 00:09:47 -0000