[DUG] API to Windows explorer

[Jolyon Smith]

I think perhaps the point (being made quite lightly imho) was that improvisation - kiwi or otherwise - is not a laudible substitute FOR a robust disaster recovery plan.  If nothing else positive comes from events in ChCh, it should at least be a wake up call for businesses who are choosing to worry about such things only if/when they happen (and essentially are banking on never having to worry about it at all).

In this case, a bit of ingenuity and quick thinking (the UPS wasn't going to run forever) saved the day - it's a neat story, but it's not "a cool idea for emergency backup".



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2011 22:18
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer

Good grief lighten up! From what I heard - using a WiFi connection from the 
street was not a plan for disaster recovery, it was good kiwi improvisation.

The point I was making was that in Christchurch in 2011, as happened in 
Greymouth around 1986 with floods,   I dealt with firms where the office was 
destroyed, and the supposedly safe offsite backups also was unavailable.

In Christchurch in an equally damaged and inaccessible network providers 
office, in Greymouth in a flooded bank vault.

Extra redundant backup options are a great idea.

John


Aside – I heard of one firm that had a server and a Wifi router on a UPS
> that had their network guy park outside with a wifi laptop and copy stuff
> from the server before the UPS died.   Couldn’t go in because the the
> front of the building had fallen out into the street.   Thats a cool idea
> for an emergency backup after the event.
>
> John
>
With respect, it's one of the silliest ideas I've heard in a long time
because:
a.) if your business continuity depends on that data being available then
you need to take backup's and DR seriously, and
b.) because endangering your staff like this shows you really don't get
it, and
c.) sitting outside a collapsed building will block access  needed by the
emergency services, and
d. etc

Cheers

David


_______________________________________________
NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
Post: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at delphi.org.nz with Subject: 
unsubscribe 

_______________________________________________
NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
Post: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe