Re: Question on DRP

["Gregory, Edward" <EGREGORY () DEPAUL EDU>]

Hi Tim - At DePaul we used to use a hot site vendor, we now have our own
recovery site at one of our other campuses. We currently have some
servers active and some that would need to be turned on at time of
disaster, so I'd say we are using more of a warm site. Our recovery time
objective is 3 days(hoping to shrink that in the near future). We
currently have our backup system at the alternate site so if we need the
data we have it at the recovery site. We would like to do mirroring or
some type of data replication so that we can keep the data in sync as
well. Our goal is that in one year we will have two live data centers,
if a disaster occurs we will be up but at around 40% to 50% of capacity
for our mission critical applications.  Feel free to contact me with any
questions you may have.

Ed


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Lane [mailto:tlane () SCU EDU AU] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 7:32 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Question on DRP

Hi,

just wondering for those universities who have in place a Disaster
Recovery Plan (DRP):  

I would be interested in knowing:


1) Are you planning on a cold, warm or hot site and why


2) If a cold site, what arrangements are in place for expeditious
purchase/acquisition of equipment


3) What recovery time have you nominated for key systems


Thanks,

Tim




Tim Lane
Information Security Program Manager

Information Technology and Telecommunication Services
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480

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