I agree entirely. We are used to thinking of and planning for emergencies that may be severe, but are local. But there have been many cases (e.g., the Asian tsunami, the big northeast power grid failure, an ice storm in Quebec) in which there have been severe geographically widesperead disturbances.
The only real alternative is a backup that is geographically far away. I would consider something like 500 miles, as the minimum reasonable distance, and would really prefer something on the order of 1,000 miles (yes, in a small country, that may mean on the other side of an international border). -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 15:23 -0500, steven mcphelan wrote: > The ASP backup scenario is more complicated than that. Katrina > demonstrated > this as the disaster covers an area of over 90,000 sq miles. An ASP > might > have a backup facility in another city or state rather than providing > a > local backup to individual clients. Local backups is also an option. > Imagine the scenario where the ASP was in New Orleans and the backup > in > Biloxi. In this case whether you had backups done locally or the > first case > I mentioned, both would have failed. This whole issue of backup and > recovery for the clinic situation is a difficult nut to crack in a > cost > effective manner that really works. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
