Here’s my problem…we have ZERO disaster recovery. Should an act of God happen tomorrow we face the liklihood of being done as a business.
+There are no co-location plans
+We backup, but tapes are stored locally
+Only SmartUps for our UPS — a whopping 4 – 7 1/2 minutes of backup juice depending which server you are talking about
+Personnel wise there does not exist a contingency plan for who does what task should someone in a critical position be killed or get hurt in such a way it prohibits them to work
+Its so pathetic we had a prospective client (representing a HUGE Pharmacy chain — if I said the name you’d know them right away) come in and ask our CEO , “So what kind of disaster recovery do you have here?”…our CEO said “Well we are fully insured.”
Despite all this I just can’t get these guys to invest some dollars into DR. I have typed up basic documentation on the why its needed and the “what-if” scenarios…but I guess either my explainations suck or they are just stubborn. The top execs have this fatal case of “If it doesn’t make us money we don’t want to invest into it!”.
I have told them we need a professional disaster recovery consultant to come in this place and assess everything and then write a report. They’d go for this if the guy was free. maybe.
Its so frustrating. This is a battle I’ve been fighting over and over for 3 years now. They won’t listen.
Recently in our area there was major rainstorms, which did considerable flood damage to surrounding areas — this made me think on the topic again (our server room is ground level).
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
