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Sidebar 1: Disaster Prevention Checklist
Know the outage costs
Know your recovery time
Know your maintance agreements
Perform regularly scheduled reboots
Perform preventive maintenance
Schedule down-time for routine maintenance
Have spares, either parts or servers, on-site for points of failure
Use redundant fault-tolerant systems when zero down-time is required
Know your Maximum Time to Repair
Perform Disaster/Recovery drills
Validate your backups
Be static safe
Keep your lab clean and locked
Perform Facilities Disaster/Recovery drills
Examine LAN traffic regularly
Centralize the helpdesk
Post hotline phone and beeper numbers
Be proactive
Document everything
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