Chapter 8 - DR And BC Flashcards
Business continuity
If systems fail, these internal processes must take place in order to recover as a company
Disaster recovery
It based, if systems fail these systems take over
Business continuity management
DR + BC
BC coordinator
Someone who oversees the bcp commuter, which is the team
Bcp policy
Supplies the framework for the bcp project
SWOT analysis
Strengths
Weakness
Opportunities
Threats
Analyze a team effectiveness
MTD and MPTD
Maximum tolerable downtime
Maximum period time disruption
RTO
Recovery time objective- this is the time it took to actually recover a system
Work recovery time
This is the time remaining of the overall MTD value assigned
Recovery point objective
This is the max rollback time acceptable
Recovery strategy stage
Predefined activities to implement and carry out in a disaster
Non Disaster
Disaster
Catastrophe
Non disaster is an isolated malfunction like a water leak
Disaster is and event that takes service or a building down for 24 hours or more
Catastrophe is when the facility is lost all together
Mean time between failures MTBF
Mean time to repair MTTR
MTBF - Estimated lifetime of equipment based on a vendor
MTTR - estimated time to repair once broken based on vendor
Hot site
A standby site with all the right hardware and software awaiting a backup restore
Warm site
Has connectivity awaiting hardware
Reciprocal agreement
We agree to use each other’s environment in a disaster.
Mutual aid agreement
Multiple companies agreeing to help each other, gets very legal and messy
Redundant site
Company owned hot site .. Everything is replicated real time and already running
Rolling hot site
Hot site in a trailer with power and telecom
Multiple processing centers
When multiple datacenter and hooked together worldwide to offer service failover instantly
Software escrow
A safety net for outsourced software development
Executive succession planning
If the cfo died .. Who takes the place?
Disk duplexing
Means multiple controllers
Disk shadowing
Means that all components of the disk hardware are replicated including controller and spindle
Electronic vaulting
Rsync or robocopy are examples or this .. They move changed data .
Remote journaling
Transaction log shipping is an example of this
Tape vaulting
Pushing data changes to a tape
Asynchronous vs synchronous replication
Sync is real time async is not
HA
This is synchronous replication and SLA
Business interruption insurance
Disaster strike and review stream will continue as long as it’s covered
Restoration team
Responsible for setting up the alternate site
Salvage team
Responses in the old facility trying to get it back online
Damage assessment
Team is responsible for the wellness of the teams, the time estimated of recovery and the coordination of the salvage team
Recovery phase
This is the period between disaster and restored
What defines a goal?
Responsibility Authority Priorities Implementation Testing
