[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

[Roland Gesthuizen]

If I get hit by a bus, I certainly hope that my colleagues don't all
suddenly run to check the backup tapes, network documentation or if I left
any homework.

Some dignity first please.

Regards Roland

PS: Why a bus? .. Why not explosive UPS failure, stray server radiation or
crushed under a falling cardboard box?

On 22/08/07, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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