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Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the collaboration-makes-things-easier-you-don't-say dept.

BobB writes "Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web sites, email and servers on different ends of the continent. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. From the article: 'When Bowdoin switched over to Exchange e-mail, so the schools would have similar e-mail infrastructure, LMU staffers were their guides and advisers. "We implemented that pretty quickly," says Davis, the Bowdoin CIO. "When we launched Exchange, we had just eight calls to our help desk." And the shared experience of the infrastructure components then forms a kind of informal help desk, where managers and staff can reach out for advice, brainstorm and troubleshoot problems with their colleagues a continent away.'"

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  1. Oh, yea, right. Like any BUSINESS would do that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, yea, right. Like any BUSINESS would do that. You kommie-geeks need to realize not everyone plants potatos and bean sprouts and wears sandles and smokes weed. BUSINESS is in BUSINESS to make money, not share the land and head lice.

    1. Re:Oh, yea, right. Like any BUSINESS would do that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      That is so true man. I got lice at the Linux convention on the way man.

  2. Two stories in one... by mi · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    One is about a good idea of using a peer's storage for backup (a more general plan would be to split your backups between multiple peers a'la RAID). My parents' and mine systems do this too.

    The other is about the institutions' unfortunate use of Exchange... Nothing to celebrate on this one.

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