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Updated - 12 : 07 : 2006
One of my first tasks when I was hired ten years ago was to investigate the creation of a disaster recovery site for our mainframe computer systems. I had already had some experiences with disasters and recovery. Here are some examples of a few that we included in our plans.Major Earthquake - Those of us who live in California understand earthquakes. I’ve personally been through at least five significant quakes (6.8 or greater) without suffering any damage at all. In many people’s mind, a major earthquake is the disaster scenario.One day the “big one” will come (in California) and who knows what will happen at that time. In fact, my boss and I were able to convince the CEO of our company to create a “hot site” (a duplicate site which is already ready to take over in the event of a disaster) because of a recent significant earthquake.One of the first things that we did is contact Caltech (the experts on earthquakes) to commission a study to determine where we should place our disaster site.
