Chapter 34 - Disaster Planning

Chapter 34

Smart bicycle riders wear helmets even though they ride carefully and certainly don't plan a headfirst landing. Schools and businesses have fire drills even though the vast majority of buildings never burn down. Similarly, system administrators sincerely hope never to need their verified backups and emergency repair disks. Nevertheless, we keep them because there are only two types of networks: those that have experienced disaster and those that haven't yet.

Disaster can take many forms, from the self-inflicted pain of a user or administrator doing something really, really unwise to the uncontrollable, unpreventable results of a natural disaster such as a flood or earthquake. In any case, your competence as a system administrator will be judged by how well you were prepared for the disaster and how well you and your team responded to it and recovered from it.

This chapter covers emergency preparedness. It discusses creating a disaster recovery plan, with standardized procedures to follow in the event of a catastrophe. It also describes how to prepare for a disaster, including how to make an emergency repair disk, how to make Microsoft Windows 2000 setup disks, how to make a boot disk, how to install the Recovery Console, how to specify recovery options in Windows 2000, and how to create an external recovery drive.



Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrators Companion
ISBN: 0735617856
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 320

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