Assignment TCO and DR- need to prepare a backup plan for disasters in your company’s LAN network. Please refer to the document uploaded for questions/instruction and sample templates.
Backup and Disaster Plan
( Figure 1 ) Facts:
· Your company has a small LAN (Local area network)
· Your company is a small web-based catalog sales company.
· Customers order products.
· The customer order is transmitted to the business partner.
· The customer’s payment is processed.
· The payment for the order is transmitted to the business partner with your fee deducted.
· The business partner ships the product.
· There are two servers in the data center.
· Server 1 is houses email and a small database.
· Server 2 is for domain authentication, file-sharing.
· There are two routers that manage the network traffic between the two switches.
· One router is dedicated to Internet inbound/outbound.
· The other router is dedicated to managing data to/from other sources
Backup
1. What would you backup?
2. How often would you execute backups?
Possible outages
1. What could fail and how will it impact the business.
2. What is your plan to continue operations during each scenario?
Replication
1. What would it cost to install a new server for replication?
2. Assume the servers are medium to small (open to your imagination)
3. Present a table that shows all the factors in the TCO (total cost of ownership).
a. HINTS: Some things to consider are: purchase cost, install cost, software licensing costs, labor, maintenance.
Submission:
Search the Internet for a template and put your results into that form.
Here are a few possibilities.
https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/health-center-template-small-1.doc
https://www.in.gov/health/files/PREPARE_Disaster_Plan_Template_IN_8_08.pdf
https://www.disasterrecoveryplantemplate.org/wp-content/uploads/DisasterRecoveryPlanTemplate.org-Disaster-Response-Plan.docx