[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

[ken price]

That is hopefully a scenario that you won't see again!

An equally difficult situation is if the IT staff are hit by a bus. They are
key to most IT installations, and might be the only people with the
necessary passwords or even knowledge of where the backup tapes are kept. A
disaster can occur without any visible damage to infrastucture.

But this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vDClhnJjs is worth watching, as a
laugh  Though for Web2.0 apps it's actually not such a joke - lots of people
have no personal backup of their Web2.0 stuff..  Like we gmail users...

ken


On 8/22/07, Timmer-Arends <timmer at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>
>  At the risk of sounding like a wet blanket after the hilarity
>
> 1. Being the 'computer guy' in a school when it burns down and takes out
> all your student computer facilities makes one take disaster planning a
> little more seriously (BSC 2000)
> 2. I know of a school that religiously ran backups for every night at
> midnight using a full rotation system, only to discover that when a backup
> was needed every tape was blank
> 3. And on a field trip to Penhalurick's hardware store many moons ago when
> they were amongst the first to have fully computerised their store's
> operation, Mr P was so confident in his system that he went over to the
> power switch board, warned those on check out that 'this was a drill' and
> pressed a big red button. The whole store went off. 45 seconds later the
> emergency generator had cut in, and about a minute later all the checkouts
> were operational again....very impressive!
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Ken Price MACS ACCE Professional Associate.
> President, TASITE
>
>
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