[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

[Timmer-Arends]

At the risk of sounding like a wet blanket after the hilarity

1. Being the 'computer guy' in a school when it burns down and takes out all your student computer facilities makes one take disaster planning a little more seriously (BSC 2000)
2. I know of a school that religiously ran backups for every night at midnight using a full rotation system, only to discover that when a backup was needed every tape was blank
3. And on a field trip to Penhalurick's hardware store many moons ago when they were amongst the first to have fully computerised their store's operation, Mr P was so confident in his system that he went over to the power switch board, warned those on check out that 'this was a drill' and pressed a big red button. The whole store went off. 45 seconds later the emergency generator had cut in, and about a minute later all the checkouts were operational again....very impressive!

Regards
Robert T-A
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roland Gesthuizen 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query


  Hmm, testing the recovery of files from the backup tapes? 
  Simulating a server shutdown with a electrical failure by power cycling a UPS? 
  Pushing the red button on a power board to see what happens?

  Regards Roland 


  On 22/08/07, Bill Turner <turner.william.s at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
    Hi Mark

    I think it means defining the disaster recovery strategies themselves (e.g.
    backup, etc), then showing a means by how those strategies can be tested ,
    ie, simulate a power-loss breakdown for a server and see how long it takes 
    to recover

    Bill

    -----Original Message-----
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    On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
    Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 2:27 PM
    To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
    Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

    Spring is in the air and a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts 
    of the ITA study design.

    ITA Key Knowledge Unit 4 Outcome 2  Dotpoint 5 is "Disaster recovery
    strategies, including testing."

    I've been wondering how testing can help one recover from disaster. 
    Sure it can help _prevent_ disaster, but that's not "recovery".

    How does testing help after the disaster has struck??

    Any ideas?

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