Re: IT disaster recovery, IT BCP, IT re-construction

From: Ron Ruble (raffles2@att.net)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: "Ron Ruble" <raffles2@att.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:21:50 GMT

"Spectre" <nothing@all.calm> wrote in message news:9h695vslfaqc5oqu5p9gi0375ktpubr02t@4ax.com...
> What if the disaster is more wide spread than just your
> business (such as an earthquake, tornado, flood)? Are you a priority
> for recovery? Will you have the people available or might they be too
> busy taking care of their families first?

Excellent point. Check the Risks Digest archives.
After the World Trade Center was bombed in
1993, many businesses that operated data
processing out of the trade center moved to
a backup site in NJ. When an unrelated
emergency occured at a bank later that year,
the backup facility was filled to capacity and
unable to accept the additional workload.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/14.42.html#subj2

Always be very wary of sentences that begin,
"what's the worst that could happen?"

The Titanic, the Maginot Line, Pearl Harbor,
_both_ World Trade Center disasters, and
many thousands more prove one thing; we
tend to seriously underestimate the worst
that could happen.

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