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Networking: A Beginner’s Guide Fifth Edition- P36:I have run into many people over the years who have gained good even impressive working knowledge of PCs, operating systems, applications, and common problems and solutions. Many of these people are wizards with desktop computers. | Chapter 12 Network Disaster Recovery 157 158 Networking A Beginner s Guide Network servers contain vital resources for a company in the form of information knowledge and invested work product of the company s employees. If they were suddenly and permanently deprived of these resources most companies would not be able to continue their business uninterrupted and would face losing millions of dollars both in the form of lost data and the effects of that loss. Therefore establishing a network disaster recovery plan and formulating and implementing the network s backup strategy are the two most important jobs in network management. In this chapter you learn about the issues that you should address in a disaster recovery plan and also about network backup strategies and systems. Before getting into these topics however you should read about the City of Seattle s disaster recovery experiences. Notes from the Field The City of Seattle The technical editor of the first through third editions of this book Tony Ryan had a personal experience with network disaster recovery. Tony worked in the IT department for the City of Seattle. On February 28 2001 Seattle experienced an earthquake that caused the city s disaster recovery plans to be tested. What follows is Tony s discussion about Seattle s disaster recovery operations and how it handled the problems that occurred in the wake of the earthquake. This is an excellent example of why you need a disaster recovery plan that encompasses all possible events that could occur during a disaster. Notes on the Seattle 2001 Earthquake and Its Disaster Recovery By Tony Ryan Seattle has seen some very unusual and attention-grabbing events over the past few years. Notable among them were the World Trade Organization WTO conference of 1999 and the violent demonstrations that accompanied it which were broadcast worldwide on television and the Internet. Also riots broke out during Mardi Gras celebrations in 2000. However nothing compared to .