Backup Plans for Your Backup Plans for Your Backup Plans
summary
Argues that a single BCP enactment can amplify other risks and shows concrete tools and failures: defines BCDR, BIA, RPO/RTO and covers scenarios like fire, flood, DNS or AWS Us East one outages, disease outbreaks, ransomware and key-person loss. Recommends tested tools—data backups, backup offices, pre-written support macros, IR runbooks, cross-trained people, PR training—and analyzes Gemini 8’s OAMS thruster short circuit (crew burns roughly 75 percent of the re-entry propellant using RCS to recover), showing backups can be consumed and plans must account for overlapping failures.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and NASA inspiration
- 1:03Core BCDR terminology review
- 6:40Business continuity as usual
- 13:59Backup plans for backup plans
- 17:29Gemini 8 mission lessons
- 21:42Q&A and closing remarks
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