Re: UKHA Archive Down

["ben_mccormack2000" <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting IT geek topic.

I originally started in internal IT providing IT work the company I worked
for. In this case then yes someone has screwed up and not off sited the
backup tapes.

Now I work for an outsourcer who provides IT as a service for other
companies and it is very simple. Has the client paid for an Offsite tape
backup service? If not then they cannot expect one.

Interesting question is was service did WestHost say they were providing.


All of this is chat rather than criticism. If it helps I have lots of old
UKHA messages going back to 2002 on my laptop if you have anything missing.

Cheers
Ben






--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Phillip Harris <phil@...> wrote:
>
>
> Bit late to be worrying about that now and I'm sure that it's not as
clear cut as it seems - there'll have been a number of consultants involved
and decisions taken in setting up their systems.
>
> I think it's always easy to criticise decisions on implementation of
systems after the event and when you're not involved directly - yes, it
does seem like a few pretty basic cockups in the design were missed but...
>
> /me shrugs
>
> Lets face it, with an infinite pot of money then every job should be
done right and every eventuality accounted for but there's no such thing as
an infinite pot of money. ;-)
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 08:29, Groups wrote:
>
> > Wow, these guys obviously had no disaster recovery plan.
> >
> >
> >
> > What sort or organisation keeps there backup server (or tapes
etc) in
> > not only the same building, but the same room!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of the_home_automator
> > Sent: 25 February 2010 07:47
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: UKHA Archive Down
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "These shared servers suffered a total loss, including the
backup server
> > the backups were located on. A few hours ago, we contracted a
third
> > party data restoration service (at a great expense) to attempt to
> > recover the data off the backup drives. At this point, we are
waiting to
> > hear back from them to determine chances of full, partial, or no
backup
> > scenario. As soon as we get the official word, we will update
this
> > status post. The situation with this server is dire, but we are
> > exhausting every avenue possible to retrieve as much data as we
possibly
> > can.
> >
> > * UPDATE * The data recovery team is working on our backup drives
- We
> > won't know the result until tomorrow morning (2/25), expect an
update
> > then."
> >
> > I forsee much work ahead...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>




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