Disaster

Recovery

Planning

A case study on

Team 1: • Dariel Dato-on • Patrick Flynn • Courtney North • Edsa Villeda-Principe • Ethan Whiddon

Google Search I’m Feeling Lucky

• 50,000+ queries per second • 4.7 billion queries per day

• 17,640 messages per user • Email account worth $3,500

• 4 billion video plays per day • One hour uploaded every second • 400+ years of video

-$4,320,000 in one hour

Types of Disasters

• Clinical Disasters

– Power outage

– Network failure

– Virus

– Intrusions

– Human error

– Data loss

• Catastrophic Disasters

– Earthquakes

– Floods

– Hurricanes

– Terrorism

Clinical 73%

Zombies 0%

Catastrophic 27%

Disaster Causes

Measuring Disaster Recovery

Hours Weeks Days Hours Weeks Days

Disaster

Recovery Point Objective • How much data you are willing to lose

Recovery Time Objective • How long it takes to recover you data

Backup Schemes

Full backup + Differentials

+

Full backup + Incrementals

+

Full Synchronization

Google File System (GFS)

Magnetic Tape Backup

• Final precautions

– Lasts up to 30 years

• Write once, read many (WORM)

• Protects against data corruption

Types of Recovery Centers

Data

Network

Hardware

Hot Site

Data

Network

Hardware

Cold Site

Datacenters Locations

• Americas

– Berkeley County, South Carolina

– Council Bluffs, Iowa

– Douglas County, Georgia

– Quilicura, Chile

– Mayes County, Oklahoma

– Lenoir, North Carolina

– The Dalles, Oregon

• Asia

– Hong Kong

– Singapore

– Taiwan

• Europe

– Hamina, Finland

– St Ghislain, Belgium

Google Datacenters

• Size and power usage – 1.7 million servers

– Enough to power 200,000 homes

• Security – Physical barriers and

perimeter fencing

– 24x7 onsite security team

– Biometric access control

– Fire repression and control

Conclusion

• Have an adequate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan

• Backup your data

• Have geographically disperse datacenters