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Chapter 12
Implementing Disaster Protection
About This Chapter
Disaster protection involves the efforts by support
professionals to prevent computer disasters and to minimize the amount
of time a computer is nonfunctional in the event of a system failure. A
computer disaster is any event that renders a computer unable to
start. The causes of computer disasters range from hardware failure to
a complete system loss, such as in the case of fire.
Microsoft Windows 2000 includes a variety of features that are
designed to help you recover from computer disasters. These disaster
protection features include support for fault-tolerant volumes,
advanced startup options, the Recovery Console, the Backup utility.
Understanding these features is essential to developing and
implementing effective disaster protection and recovery plans.
Before You Begin
To complete this chapter
- You must have a computer that meets or exceeds the minimum
hardware requirements listed in "Getting Started."
- You must have installed Windows 2000 Server on a computer
meeting the specifications listed in the preceding bullet. The computer
should be installed as a stand-alone computer in a workgroup and TCP/IP
should be the only installed protocol.
- Your computer should be using a static IP address.
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