[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

[Brendyn Hancock]

Trish

I'm all for re-enacting disasters.

We could get those make-up people from the emergency services to come
in and help do up all the kids as victims of a school disaster and then
do a test of recovering the data from a fire in the server room...

 :-) its the end of the day, what can I say...

Brendyn

Brendyn Hancock
IT Manager
bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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>>> "Trish Cotter" <tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au> 22/08/2007 3:15 pm >>>
Actually all you need to do to test it is really take one of the backup
tapes (or the set of
backup tapes depending on your preferred method) that you have stored
off site or in a fire proof
safe and try to restore it with the data. If there is an error in the
recovery you will know
whether your backup strategy is working. I don't think you are supposed
to re-enact a disaster.
-- 
Regards,
Trish Cotter
Koonung Secondary College
*******
tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au 

On Wed, August 22, 2007 2:35 pm, Russell Edwards wrote:
>
> On 22/08/2007, at 2:27 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:
>
>> Spring is in the air and a young man's fancy lightly turns to
>> thoughts of the ITA study design.
>>
>> ITA Key Knowledge Unit 4 Outcome 2  Dotpoint 5 is "Disaster
>> recovery strategies, including testing."
>>
>> I've been wondering how testing can help one recover from disaster.
>> Sure it can help _prevent_ disaster, but that's not "recovery".
>
> Well, to be fair, it said strategies, not *effective*
> strategies ;-).  Other examples could be "do nothing" or "make a
> visual representation of your thinking".
>
> Russell
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