LAN Disaster Prevention and Recovery, by Patrick Corrigan,

LAN DISASTER PREVENTION AND RECOVERY
by Patrick H. Corrigan

The First Line of Defense Against LAN Disaster

"LAN disasters come in many forms: hardware and software failure, human
error, sabotage, and natural disaster. Many people erroneously think that LAN
disaster prevention and recovery simply means performing proper backups and
recovering from file server crashes. In reality, however, LAN disaster prevention
and recovery must deal with anything that can affect the continuing operation of a
LAN and its components.

"Based on Patrick Corrigan's seminar on LAN Disaster Prevention and
Recovery, this book:
- Focuses on the prevention of and recovery from total system failures, as
well
as the minor problems that cause downtime and lost data.
- Addresses major issues of maintaining system availability, maintaining data
integrity and security, and recovering from disaster in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrates, in a step-by-step fashion, how to build your own disaster
prevention and recovery plan at the system and site levels.
- Emphasizes what can be done to prevent disasters from happening, as well
as
what can be done in advance to ease the task of recovery should a disaster
occur.
- Discusses specific tools and techniques for documenting systems and
procedures and writing a disaster plan."

CONTENTS:
1 Introduction
It Can't Happen Here, Can It?
A State of Mind
Disaster Planning Issues
Selling Disaster Prevention and Recovery
What is Downtime?
What Does Downtime Cost and Why Should I Care?
How Long and How Often Can You Afford to Be Down?
The Goal: Minimum Downtime
What Do You Need to Protect Against?
How Much Protection Do You Need?
The Grand Plan, or One Step at a Time?
2 Planning The Plan
Why LAN Disaster Planning is So Very Hard To Do
Kaizen
Who's Responsible for What?
Personnel Issues
Risk Assessment
How Much Does It Cost?
Selling the Plan (To Everyone!)
3 Documentation
Creating and Maintaining Documentation
What to Document
Documentation Examples
4 Building Reliable Systems
Planning, Design and Installation
Hardware and Software Selection
5 LAN Security
Why is LAN Security Important?
LAN Security Rules of Thumb
Physical Access Control
User Login and Authentication
Access Rights and Logical Access Control
Shareware
Data Encryption
Virus Prevention and Recovery
E-Mail
6 Backing Up Data
What Causes Data Loss?
Backup Hardware and Software Requirements
Reliability
Backup Technologies
Backup Methods and Procedures
Data Recovery
7 Power Backup and Conditioning
Origins of Power Defects
Potential Power Problems
Building the Foundation
Power Protection Solutions
Preventing and Resolving Power Problems
8 Business Resumption Planning
Simplifying the Problem
Approaches to Off-Site Recovery
Recovery Planning Tips
After the Fact: Problems Encountered by Those Who Have Been There
The "Right" Way
9 Writing and Testing a Recovery Plan
The Role of IS
Phases of a Disaster Plan
Creating Scenarios
Flow Charts
Recovery Teams
Communications
Required Equipment and Supplies
Vendors
Important Records
Tools for Writing Disaster Plans
Testing
Conclusion
Appendix A Glossary
Appendix B Sample Server and Workstation Recovery Plans
File Server Problems
Workstation Problems
Appendix C Statistics
Appendix D Sample Password Policy
Appendix E Sample E-Mail Policy
Appendix F Resource Guide
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
"Patrick H. Corrigan is Managing Director of The Corrigan Group, a
consulting and training firm based in Tigard, Oregon. A recognized authority on
LANs, he is the author of the best-selling Building Local Area Networks with
Novell's
NetWare as well as Backing Up NetWare LANs."

1994, 310 pages Order #DR-131 $42.50

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