Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Disaster Recovery

Photo above is the condition Sidoarjo at this time, when you see the photos in the file "landscape disaster" will look different. Sidoarjo is only one of the disaster in Indonesia and the settlement still requires serious by the Indonesian government. A location that is now filled with drilling mud, such as sulfur and which has been shut nearly 1 out of district residential lots. Indonesia is very close to a variety of potential natural disasters, because the soil structure and geographical conditions that support the disaster. Suppose you heard about the tsunami disaster in Aceh, earthquake in Yogyakarta, and the latest disaster is the landslide and flooding in Situ Gintung Jakarta.

Natural disasters are a consequence of a combination of natural events (a physical event, such as mountain eruption, earthquake, landslide) and human activity. Because of human weakness, the effects of less well emergency management, causing losses in the field of financial and structural, even until death. The resulting loss depends on the ability to prevent or avoid disasters and their resistance.

Disaster is defined as the occurrence of events that can not be predicted and are very destructive. This identifies the occurrence of a sudden, unexpected, are very destructive, and less planning. Disaster occur with a frequency that is not stabilized and increased for those who do not prepare for the occurrence possibilities of disaster. Various disasters that may occur include:
1. Natural disasters caused by geological conditions and geographical location
2. Fire caused by environmental factors, and system settings that can cause electrical short circuit
3. Damage to the electricity network caused by electrical system
4. Terrorist attacks are caused by poor physical security and non-physical data center
5. System or device that damaged the error associated with management control device
6. Operational errors due to human done
7. The virus is caused by an error eg the selection of anti virus used

If disaster recovery is associated with the business world, will lead us in the # definition of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and # Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Business will depend on the spread of information and applications that process information, so the main application-specific standard to be is very critical so that when the interference occurs only when some of it can cripple a business company. For that reason, some companies have a direction that ensures business continuance available occur when a disaster or disruption that is not planned or already planned. This landing in the # Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Data Replication

One thing that becomes very crucial in the Disaster Recovery is a data and information, as has been mentioned before is very important to maintain consistency of data and information for the company. This need can accommodative by using data replication technology. Data replication is a process of copying content data to a remote location either take place or continue at a certain interval. Replication of data will provide a complete copy of data for disaster recovery purposes. Location is usually the secondary remote data center.

But in reality not many companies in Indonesia that would meet the standards of disaster rescue. As happened in Sidoarjo is a mistake because the procedure of drilling companies.