9 LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE OVH DATACENTER DESTRUCTION BEFORE A CRISIS 1 Do not collocate your backups with your app. If you do, you expose yourself to a local/regional event and might lose it all. Consider mirroring. If you do not mirror your app, do not...
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9 LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE OVH DATACENTER DESTRUCTION BEFORE A CRISIS 1 Do not collocate your backups with your app. If you do, you expose yourself to a local/regional event and might lose it all. Consider mirroring. If you do not mirror your app, do not expect a miracle. Your provider will not be reachable for obvious reasons: he is dealing with 2 the crash of his life and everyone like you wants to solve his own problem. Also, it takes time to recover a backup and even more to rebuild an infra. Before last week, both our client and our team thought that mirroring was a luxury for non-mission-critical providers. We shall now reconsider. Is it acceptable for an organization with hundreds of users to miss the software that orchestrates its operations for up to three days? 3 A proper Disaster Recovery Plan is a must-have! However, it is not enough, keep things in order. ‘‘We are only as strong as our weakest link”. The parameters you forgot to indicate in your recovery plan will cost yo
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