Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery
When flood waters threatened to breach the banks of the Brisbane River recently, the State Library of Queensland, Australia looked to be one of its first casualties.
Fortunately for the library and Queensland’s bookworms, management had a well-developed disaster recovery plan that went beyond simple data backup and that included all the minutiae of surviving catastrophe so that librarians didn’t have to make it up as they went along.
As the water started flowing into the basement levels, the library’s client services director Rory McLeod and staff swung into action.
McLeod’s confidence in being able to recover in the face of disaster was reinforced by a written and annually updated disaster plan that included what to do to physically secure and protect an installation and how to handle the inevitable staff absences at a time of great stress. It included disaster scenario planning procedures to cater for contingencies.
See Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery… But four-fifths of Australia’s IT workers are not so confident they could reboot after catastrophe by Nate Cochrane for itnews for Australian Business.
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