Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services Carl Baker, Dir. IT Emergency Preparedness Florida State University 1/2/2019

BC/DR Objectives Support business continuity and preserve critical IT data in the face of a disastrous event Leverage participation in the Florida LambdaRail to utilize a remote site outside Florida (and inland!) 1/2/2019

Three-Pronged Approach Protect critical data by maintaining remote copies of all backups performed at the central site Provide a limited set of critical IT services from a remote location in the event of a disaster Extend remote site capability to other campus units 1/2/2019

How is critical data protected? TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) selected as the standardized tape backup method Perform daily tape backups on ~140 centrally supported systems Copy all backups to the remote site Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 24 hours 1/2/2019

How is critical data protected? In addition to tape backups, on-disk copies of certain key data are maintained at the remote site and synchronized directly with running production systems (Blackboard, DNS, Directory info) 1/2/2019

What critical IT services can be provided from the remote site? www.fsu.edu Blackboard course management system Directory Services Limited e-mail capability PeopleSoft HR and Financials Web-based middleware access to mainframe-hosted services (Secure Apps) 1/2/2019

How can departments take advantage of the remote site? Use NAS system at the remote site for direct-to-disk off-site copy of departmental data Use the UCS enterprise-level NAS system as primary disk stores Directly access the TSM tape backup system for departmental backups Talk to us about a custom solution 1/2/2019

For more information Pick up a handout here today Visit http://www.fsu.edu/prepare Email: carl.baker@fsu.edu Phone: 645-8018 1/2/2019

Questions? 1/2/2019