ABSTRACT
The use of televaulting provides a real-time solution to an organization’s backup requirements combined with the movement of backup data to an off-site location. In comparison, conventional tape backup requires the physical movement of tapes to an off-site storage location. There are two types of disaster recovery sites one should consider to counteract the potential effect of natural and manmade disasters. Those sites commonly are referred to as hot sites and cold sites. The selection of a hot site or cold site as a disaster recovery location primarily depends upon three items — the critical nature of recovery operations, the time required to purchase and install required hardware and software in the event the primary data center becomes inaccessible, and economics. A cold site represents a location that one may lease or own and can use in the event of a disaster, but which does not contain the necessary equipment to resume processing.
