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How safe are our backup in case of fire ?

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From: Lee Yui Wah
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
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[crossposted to cs.forum,cuhk.forum,hk.general]

What lesson can we learn from the fire on Headquarter
of Credit Lyonnais, Paris ?  All equipment are gone,
but thanks god (i.e. the system administrators :-)
they have remote backup for all data.  They can
resume business almost immediately.

How about our own backup ? I know many organizations
in Hong Kong (probably apart from those using mainframes) have
a rather optimistic backup policy:  they put they
backup tape in the cabinets in the same offices, but
not in remote sites.

These backup policies can withstand system crashes
but not fires which are _not_ that unlikely.

The data in our servers are not less important to us
than the customers account data to Credit Lyonnais.  

Rgds,

LEE, Yui-wah (Clement)
Hong Kong
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From: clement@cs.cuhk.hk (Lee Yui Wah)
Subject: How safe are our backup in case of fire ?
Date: 1996/05/08
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