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Disaster Recovery?

Posted by Cliff on from the living-thru-an-IT-nightmare dept.

M. Grochmal asks: "A three-alarm fire at Southern Maine Technical College burned through the Computer Technology and Technical Graphics departments. We have salvaged most of what we can, but cannot return into the building until the asbestos risk decreases. The hard part now is rebuilding the networks in another building. The schedules have been rearranged, many of the department students and faculty are volunteering to relocate salvageable computers, as well as install/configure the new computers that will be arriving in the next day or so. On top of that, we have to rebuild the Netware servers, restore from backups, and get them networked again. I was wondering how other Slashdot readers were able to recuperate from unforeseen damage to their work (and learning) environments. You can read about the fire here and see what the schedule is. Wish us luck."

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  1. NDS and the 3 day rule by CounterZer0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just make sure you get your NDS stuff restored within three days. AFter that, have fun rebuilding your tree! Unless of course, you followed guidelines and had offsite replicas of each partition!

  2. A Day late and a Dollar short question of the year by xinu · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was wondering how other Slashdot readers were able to recuperate from unforeseen damage to their work (and learning) environments.

    Uhh, you would have a DR plan BEFORE the place burns down based on your DR plan that was developed with the business or school needs. Tape backups and another site to restore to. Perhaps even the information was mirrored to it via a SAN. Everyone keeps their tapes offsite right?

    That's all I've been doing since the 9/11 incident and I think it has something to do with that since I work in the Boston WTC everyone is a bit paranoid about dataloss since we had offices that got toasted in NYC.

  3. Some Idea ... by NWT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing is better than a recent, working and complete backup ... but a few days ago, i saw an advertisement from a firm (DriveSavers) they are specialised in data-recovery for destroyed harddisks, maybe they can help!

    Besides, i suppose it would be best to see the positive side of that incident, i'm sure it will be a good experience rebuilding the network! Anyway, good luck to you ...

    --
    Life sucks.
  4. What is the question? by Adrian+Voinea · · Score: 3, Informative
    I am sorry that such a terrible thing happened. I hope you find this helpful. I bumped into this webpage a while ago :

    Disaster Recovery Resources - it contains a lot of useful articles about disaster recovery.
    I wish you luck!