A Chronicle Of Higher Ed. Article on planning for the worst.
They say for every story of how an institution was able to save its data, a professor somewhere has a horror story about losing years of research after a fire, natural disaster, or a server crash. And while most large universities religiously back up their main computer servers every night, some only save data on smaller servers once a week.
“”The scary part is if you’re planning for this disaster, and it fails in the calm moment, what’s going to happen in a real disaster?” Mr. Ellis says. “Everybody talks about backup, but the really important part is how long it takes to do a restore.”
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