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Originally Posted by tg989
Acts of god aren't covered by your insurance either, this being the equivalent of that. Be grateful the backups weren't corrupted.
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True that. However if you run a large facility then having a tape only backup system that can only cope with a few restores at a time is tantamount to not having a backup because the point of a backup is that you can deploy a restore quickly if need be.
Disaster recovery plans should cater for the worst case scenarios and obviously RCN, for all the hype of their managed server operations, didn't put enough work into developing an effective disaster recovery plan.
Now it seems they are pulling the plug on all these servers and forgoing the leases on them while giving ISPrime access to the backups. If what they say is true then regardless of who does the work, 4000 man hours of work is required to complete a restore. That is disastrous.
If you are running mission critical applications then you should insist that your host provides rotating offsite disk based backups so that disaster recovery is possible, because no disaster recovery plan is successful if it takes a month.
