1. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services
Carl Baker, Dir. IT Emergency Preparedness Florida State University
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2. 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!)
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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)
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6. What critical IT services can be provided from the remote site?
Blackboard course management system
Directory Services
Limited capability
PeopleSoft HR and Financials
Web-based middleware access to mainframe-hosted services (Secure Apps)
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7. 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
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9. Questions?
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