Chapter 9. Preparing For Disaster Recovery

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

  • The major types of disasters that threaten your data center

  • How to minimize the impact of power outages

  • Fires, floods, and other disasters that destroy or prevent access to your data center

  • Security breaches, viruses, human error, and other disasters that result in data loss

  • The importance of analyzing the business impact of disasters

  • The different types of secondary sites and how they are used

  • How to create, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan

  • Conducting disaster drills

In previous chapters of this book, you've learned about some of the issues surrounding service outages, from slow email retrieval to complete network failure. These types of outages ...

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