(ISF) Re: Is there a nightmare waiting to happen in your sock drawer?

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>>;I agree with Helen and some of the other respondents. Your worst case scenarios are mostly implausible; and they encourage fear on issues that really shouldn't generate too much fear.>>

Deborah's scenarios *are* mostly improbably, but there's one big one that isn't: a natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina.

It's easy to imagine a small nonprofit or a small business in New Orleans that had their office destroyed, as well as the house of the person storing their backup tapes. Actually, I'd be interested in hearing about documented cases of permanent data loss from this incident, as a tool for learning.

There are many caveats: some regions aren't as susceptible to these disasters, some people say "if something like that happened we'd have bigger things to worry about";, many nonprofits have much more basic backup issues to address, and so on. But the lesson I take away is that disasters, of many shapes and sizes, DO happen.

Here's a post from a server admin list that's a great starting point/template for creating a backup policy:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2005/Nov/msg00592.html

Ramsey

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Ramsey Tantawi
IT Manager
The Food Project
P.O. Box 705/10 Lewis St.
Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: 781-259-8621 x25
Fax: 781-259-9659
rtantawithefoodproject.org
http://www.thefoodproject.org

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