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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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