Dealing with Development House Disasters?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday April 3, 2003 @12:45PM from the planning-for-the-worst dept.

Skinnytie asks: "I was recently asked by the CEO of the company for which I work to find a resource from which to better understand what to do in the event of a disaster. 'I'm on it, Sir' was my response, and I ran back to my desk and started writing contingency plans and trying to imagine what to do if a meteorite strikes our co-lo facility. I quickly came te realize that there is far more that *could* happen (the CTO gets hit by bus, or the in-house server room gets abducted by aliens...you get the point) than I am even prepared to write plans for. I thought I'd hit the Slashdot audience up for some ideas/horror stories regarding avoiding, dealing with and getting past whatever disasters that have occurred at your development houses. Have at you!"

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Secure the data by Usquebaugh · 2003-04-03 12:55 · Score: 4, Informative

First and foremost, make sure you have your data backed up and secure. Nothing else matters if the data is missing. When did you last test your backups?

Next ensure you can get you backup data when you need it. You state colo I'm assuming you have a duplicate system at your colo. Can you get access at 22:15 on July 4th?

Now draw up your usual emergencies fire, flood, tornado, earthquake etc. Have a plan how to get your systems up and running. Do you need to rent office space? What about net conectivity.

Lastly, re-check your data backups, do you have everything, is it error free, do you have more than one copy. If you have the data your company can recover.

No data, no job, it's as simple as that.