Week 5 Disaster Recovery Comments"

1. Faculty machines are not backed-up by IT. It is our job as faculty to make sure that documents that we care about are on the n:\ drive or on One Drive.
2. The reason that there is not information about security breaches in the DR plan is that Dominican has a separate set of secuity documents. Dominican uses an outside firm to do security reviews and make recommendations. I have not asked to get this information for us because I haven't wanted to invest effort in redacting the documents.
3. Based on your questions, I will follow-up with our CIO Jill Albin-Hill on the following:
   1. How often do we update our DR plan?
4. We use acat2k12.dom.edu in our class. I consider this server to be "Tier Three". My strategy would be to backup the machine once at the beginning of the semester and if a problem occurred, restore the machine to the way it was at the beginning of the semester. We are told not to store any long term data on the server so there is no need to recover data that has been added since the beginning of the semester. Software and configuration information is not supposed to change on this server during the semester.