Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Services

• Carl Baker, Dir. IT Emergency PreparednessFlorida
  State University

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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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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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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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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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What critical IT services can be provided from
the remote site?

• www.fsu.edu
• Blackboard course management system
• Directory Services
• Limited e-mail capability
• PeopleSoft HR and Financials
• Web-based middleware access to mainframe-hosted
  services (Secure Apps)

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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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For more information

• Pick up a handout here today
• Visit http//www.fsu.edu/prepare
• Email carl.baker_at_fsu.edu
• Phone [phone]

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• Questions?