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Written by JoomSpyder Admin
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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Disaster preparedness and disaster recovery is a topic that should be foremost in the mind of any Joomla! site administrator. Long the purview of major corporations, disaster recovery and business continuance has been shoved into the minds of every American and for that matter the world. The events of 9-11 terrorist attacks, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the horrific events of the Tsunamis that the Asia Pacific region suffered under have galvanized our thinking towards true disaster preparedness. These three events alone should give pause for thought and cause you to ask “what if?” What if my e-commerce site went down? In the grand scheme of things to the world, this is probably nothing. To you it could mean not staying in business. The purpose of this book This manual is written specifically for site administrators of Joomla-based websites,
giving you a guide to prepare for disaster. The disaster may come in the form of a natural one such as Hurricane Katrina. Other damage may come from a cracker exploit; like a thief in the night. Additionally, hardware failure often accounts for the majority of the problems in technical infrastructures and the guide is intended to help you prepare and respond in a timely fashion. When all of these things are considered, a plan that helps you protect and restore your data is the goal of this book. This book covers an introduction to disaster preparedness. In a nutshell, this helps you to establish good maintenance practices and backup/restoration procedures. It is dedicated to developing your disaster preparedness plan. Within these pages, you will work through gathering information critical to your preparedness. It will provide you with the knowledge and strategies to report incidents to the Joomla community and the wider internet community—including ISP’s and web hosting providers etc. Many good books have been written that take the subject of disaster recovery in greater scope than this book. However I did not write this as a comprehensive guide to full disaster recovery planning, but a focused view on supporting Joomla! sites and being prepared for disaster. What this book is not: This book is not a complete guide to facility, work space or people evacuation, network, voice, fire suppression, flooding, and weather events or data line restoration. Those are beyond the scope of this book. Buy the book by clicking here |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 August 2007 )
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Review of Dodging the Bullets |
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Written by JoomlaJabber
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
Jon Toigo of drplanning.org recently reviewed Dodging The Bullets and he had some very kind things to say. You can read his review here and an updated posting here . Personally, I highly recommend his very complete book, Disaster recovery planning - preparing for the unthinkable a very complete guide to preparing your staff, your facility and your self for a major disaster. Toigo, was kind enough to point out a minor error in my text that will be corrected in an updated version.Here is his words from his blog : It feels nice to have something nice to say every now and then. I can’t stop thinking about Canavan’s book, Avoiding the Bullets (see previous post), for two reasons. One, because he hits home in my experience with open source CMS, and the other, he is doing what every sys admin and developer ought to do. When you build a web site, or a piece of application code, or a system, network or storage platform, you should always think about the dark side — what could happen and what you can build into what you are developing to prevent disasters or to expedite recovery from them. Too often DR provisions are bolted on after the platform has been built. This is a painful and expensive and often inefficacious approach. It is better to build DR in than to bolt DR on. One minor error in Canavan’s book is worth noting, not because it reflects anything wrong with his thinking, but because it perpetuates a misinterpretation that has been floating around for years. The error is with the attribution of meaning to the Chinese term for disaster (actually for crisis). The incorrect interpretation, which I used to make all the time, is that the two pictograms/ideograms that create the word “disaster” mean DANGER + OPPORTUNITY. This is wrong. The two symbols mean DANGER + A POINT IN TIME. Here is a good explanation from an expert on the language. I find it much more compelling than the DANGER + OPPORTUNITY interpretation, since it is how we react to a crisis that determines whether it is a momentary inconvenience or a full blown Disaster with a capital D. Don’t worry, Tom. I made the same mistake in the intro to my first book on DR and the misinterpretation has a deep history." |
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