What’s Your HR Plan B?
Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 by Frank RocheKnowHR was down for about 24 hours over the weekend. I got this note from our hosting provider about what happened:
On Saturday 5:45 central time a huge transformer explosion took out
three walls and the main electrical system at our datacenter in
Houston, Texas. Fortunately no one was hurt in the explosion.This explosion has taken both of our main nameservers offline which were on separate networks and is affecting many of our servers including our main support website.
The explosion has affected many hosting providers with 10,000 servers currently offline at this time. Fortunately our servers and your website data are still intact.
Whew! I wasn’t worried though. I back up KnowHR every week in 3 places. That’s my Plan B for a little thing like this blog. But what do you do for an HR Plan B? Could you recover so quickly if something like a transformer explosion happened at your shop? If you don’t have a redundant plan in place to take care of those Excel spreadsheets in your bottom drawer, maybe today’s a good day to get started.
Amit
Jun 3rd, 2008
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Lex Fortis
Jun 3rd, 2008
Yikes! Brings a whole new meaning to backing up your talk with action.
Elliot Ross
Jun 4th, 2008
Yikes is right – as an IT Manager in the small / mid market space that is a challenge that must be addressed often. (and I write about it often!)
An explosion of this size can be an extreme case, (most data loss is human error or maliciousness) but as well as having backups of those Excel files – if your shop had that kind of explosion and it kept you out of the building – even if you have your nice backup – do you have an alternate place to even put your nice restored Excel files!!