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| Building a Disaster Recovery Plan-The Need | |
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| The Need | |
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| Plan for All Types of Disasters | |
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| Reasons for Planning | |
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| Let's Get Started | |
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| Definitions and Risk Mitigation | |
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| Server Criticality and Recovery Strategies | |
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| Develop the Plan | |
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| Validate the Recovery Plan | |
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| Summary | |
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| Vulnerability Assessment & Risk Analysis | |
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| Site Vulnerability Assessment | |
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| Vulnerability Assessment Summary | |
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| Performing a Risk Analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conducting a Business Impact and Recoverability Analysis | |
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| Starting the Business Impact Analysis | |
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| Tangible Costs | |
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| Intangible Costs | |
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| Identifying Mission-Critical Functions | |
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| Outage Impact | |
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| Recovery Time Objective vs. Recovery Point Objective | |
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| Shifting Focus for Return on Investment (ROI) | |
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| The Process of the BIA | |
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| Summary | |
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| Critical Server Ranking | |
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| Classifying Systems for Recovery Priority | |
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| Mission-Critical Only, Please | |
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| Rank Your Data Backup Priorities | |
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| Backups, and Recovery Time and Point Objectives | |
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| Critical Systems Definition, A List | |
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| Critical Systems Definition, B List | |
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| Is Email Mission-Critical? | |
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| Hardware Requirements for Mission-Critical Servers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Building Recovery Strategy Requirements | |
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| The Disaster Recovery Challenge | |
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| Guidelines for Selecting Recovery Strategies | |
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| Market Trends | |
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| Recovery Strategies | |
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| Data Center Recovery Solutions | |
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| Determine the Level of Business Resiliency You Want to Achieve | |
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| Overall Site Restoration Strategy Sample | |
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| Summary | |
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| Backup and Recoverability | |
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| Plan for Data Recovery | |
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| 10 Issues for the Administration of Backups | |
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| Checklist for Backup and Recovery | |
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| Backup Media Management | |
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| How Much to Back Up for Disaster Recovery | |
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| Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) | |
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| A Simple Save Strategy | |
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| Save More with Save-While-Active | |
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| Richard's Backup Solution | |
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| Backups for Planned Maintenance Windows | |
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| IBM's Virtual Tape Solution (VTL) | |
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| Duplicate Your Removable Media | |
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| Restoration Commands | |
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| The BRMS System Recovery Report | |
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| How the System Restores Access Paths | |
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| Backing Up and Recovering a Domino Server | |
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| Hardware Management Console (HMC) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Your Business Value of Systems Availability | |
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| High Availability-Take the High Road | |
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| Recovery on Your High-Availability Investment | |
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| Is Your H/A Truly High Availability? | |
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| IBM's Capacity Backup Offering | |
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| Summary | |
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| Vital Records and Critical Data Offsite Storage | |
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| Vital Record Management | |
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| Offsite Storage Considerations | |
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| Choosing an Offsite Storage Provider | |
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| Summary | |
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| Building Your Teams | |
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| Selecting Candidates: Pick Me! No, Don't Pick Me! | |
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| When There Is Loss of Life or Missing People | |
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| Building Your Recovery Teams | |
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| How to Work Together | |
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| The IT Recovery Management Team | |
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| The IT Technical Recovery Team | |
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| The Network Team | |
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| The Hardware Recovery Team | |
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| Application Recovery Team | |
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| Facility Recovery Team | |
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| Replacement Equipment | |
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| Disaster Recovery Preparedness | |
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| Administrative Responsibilities | |
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| Care for Your Recovery Teams During a Disaster | |
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| The Team's Meeting Place | |
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| Summary | |
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| Effective Communications | |
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| Develop an Employee Call Sheet | |
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| Who Do You Contact? | |
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| Selecting a Meeting Place for the Command Center | |
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| Facing and Dealing with the Media | |
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| Notification Solution Design | |
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| Summary | |
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| How to Develop and Document a Disaster Recovery Plan | |
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| Disaster Recovery Plan Development Overview | |
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| Ready, Set, Write the Plan | |
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| The Disaster Recovery Plan's Structure | |
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| Developing and Writing the Procedures | |
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| Disaster Recovery Teams Overview | |
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| Summary | |
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| Effective Plan-Activation Procedures | |
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| The Disaster-Alert Notification Procedure | |
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| First-Alert Response | |
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| Hotsite Call-up Procedures | |
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| Recalling Tapes from Your Offsite Storage Provider | |
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| Site Restoration Activities | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Need for System-Related Documentation | |
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| A Change in the i5 Philosophy Silos | |
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| Write It All Down | |
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| I Thought Those Backup Tapes Had Everything! | |
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| Collecting and Maintaining System Information | |
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| The Prtsysinf Command | |
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| Complete Site Loss versus Server Loss | |
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| Summary | |
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| System i5/iSeries Restoration Procedures | |
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| Recovery Procedures | |
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| Case Study Sample | |
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| Summary | |
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| System i5/iSeries BRMS Restoration Procedures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan | |
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| Practice Just Like the Pros | |
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| Satisfy the Need for Testing | |
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| The Embarrassment of Testing: What If We Fail? | |
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| Open-Book Testing | |
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| Define a Complete Testing Project | |
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| Passive Testing | |
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| Active Testing | |
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| Disaster Recovery Coordinator Testing Duties | |
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| Introducing Murphy's Law | |
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| Evaluation of Test Results | |
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| Be a Survivor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Plan Maintenance | |
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| Your Plan Design | |
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| Implementing a Maintenance Philosophy | |
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| Revisit Your Plan-Get into Maintenance Mode | |
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| Change Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Selecting a Commercial Hotsite Provider | |
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| Advance Planning = Hotsite | |
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| Internal or External Hotsite? | |
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| What to Look for in a Hotsite Provider | |
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| Cost Considerations | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Family DR Plan | |
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| Disaster Recovery Begins at Home | |
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| Emergency Supplies | |
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| Practice and Maintain Your Plan | |
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| Personal and Family Requirements | |
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| Awareness Training | |
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| Information on Family Disaster Plans | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Documents | |
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| Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire | |
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| Operational Priorities | |
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| Operational Impacts | |
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| Customer Service | |
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| Cash Flow/Revenue | |
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| Regulatory (If Applicable) | |
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| Increases In Liability | |
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| Vendor Relations | |
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| Financial Control/Reporting | |
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| Mission Critical IT Applications | |
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| Vulnerability | |
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| Server Criticality Analysis | |