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Special Forums Cybersecurity Please Tell Me About Disaster Recovery Post 31420 by Neo on Thursday 7th of November 2002 11:47:48 AM
Old 11-07-2002
IT disaster recovery plans, programs and investments are directly proportional to the degree of risk when the IT systems are down.

Banks, brokers, insurance companies and other similar financial-releated firms tend to have very well financed and supported disaster recovery programs because their entire business is IT related (after all, money is simply numbers in computers, very little cash or other material is actually stored or transferred).

So, in a nutshell, disaster recovery is also known (in some circles) as business continuity planning (in the event of a disaster) and the metric is how fast business can continue in the event of a failure, series of failures, etc.

This can involve setting up IT computing and data centers in other parts of the world (in the event of nuclear attack on a nation!), setting up similar centers in cities a few miles away (in the event of fire or flood), or simply doing back ups on some reliable storage media.

The plans are completely dependent on the degree of risk to life or property (money) to the business (or mission) if the systems are lost.

Disaster recovery is a subset of the overall IT security umbrella known as 'operational risk managment'... where risks are managed with various compensating controls. The controls can be technical, but are also based on policy and business process, insuring insurance coverage, business continuity processes, etc.
 

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Date::Manip::Holidays(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				Date::Manip::Holidays(3pm)

NAME
Date::Manip::Holidays - describes holidays and events SYNOPSIS
This describes the Holidays and Events sections of the config file, and how they are used. Holidays and events are specific days that are named. Holidays are used in business mode calculations, events are not. Events may be used for other calendaring operations. HOLIDAYS
The holiday section of the config file is used to define holidays. Each line is of the form: STRING = HOLIDAY HOLIDAY is the name of the holiday (or it can be blank in which case the day will still be treated as a holiday... for example the day after Thanksgiving is often a work holiday though it is not named). STRING is a string which can be parsed to give a valid date. It can be any of the following forms: A full date Specific holidays can be set which occur only a single time. May 5, 2000 = A one-time-only holiday Any format parseable by Date::Manip::Date::parse_date can be used. A date without a year Some holidays occur every year on the same day. These can be defined using the simple lines: Jan 1 = New Year's Day Jul 4th = Independence Day fourth Thu in Nov = Thanksgiving These dates must be written in a form which can be parsed as a full date by simply adding the year to the end of the string. Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date documentation to see what forms will work. ISO 8601 dates will not work since the year comes first. Any format parseable by Date::Manip::Date::parse_date can be used. Recurrence The dates can be specified using recurrences: 1*0:0:0:0:0:0*EASTER = Easter 1*11:0:11:0:0:0*DWD = Veteran's Day In cases where you are interested in business type calculations, you'll want to define most holidays using recurrences, since they can define when a holiday is celebrated in the financial world. For example, Christmas might be defined as: Dec 25 = Christmas but if it falls on a weekend, there won't be a business holiday associated with it. It could be defined using a recurrence: 1*12:0:24:0:0:0*DWD = Christmas so that if Christmas falls on a weekend, a holiday will be taken on the Friday before or the Monday after the weekend. You can use the fully specified format of a recurrence: 1*2:0:1:0:0:0***Jan 1 1999*Dec 31 2002 = Feb 2 from 1999-2002 OTHER HOLIDAY CONSIDERATIONS
Recurrences which change years It is now valid to have a recurrence defined for New Year's day which pushes the holiday to the previous year. For example, the most useful definition of New Year's day is: 1*1:0:1:0:0:0*DWD = New Year's Day which means to choose the closest working day to observe the holiday, even though this might mean that the holiday is observed on the previous year. Order of definitions is preserved The order of the definitions is preserved. In other words, when looking at the holidays for a year, previously defined holidays (in the order given in the config file) are correctly handled. As an example, if you wanted to define both Christmas and Boxing days (Boxing is the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in some parts of the world), and you wanted to celebrate Christmas on a business day on or after Dec 25, and Boxing day as the following work day, you could do it in one of the following ways: 1*12:0:25:0:0:0*NWD = Christmas 1*12:0:26:0:0:0*NWD = Boxing or 1*12:0:25:0:0:0*NWD = Christmas 1*12:0:25:0:0:0*NWD = Boxing Holidays go into affect the minute they are parsed which is why the second example works (though for clarity, the first one is preferable). The first recurrence defined the first business day on or after Dec 25 as Christmas. The second one then defines the business day after that as Boxing day. Since the definitions are stored as a list (NOT a hash as they were in Date::Manip 5.xx), using the same recurrence twice does not cause a problem. Multiple holidays Having multiple holidays on a single day is allowed. As an example, you may want to look at New Years day as both the observed and actual holidays, so you might have: 1*1:0:1:0:0:0*DWD = New Year's Day (observed) Jan 1 = New Year's Day Most of the time, both will fall on the same day, but sometimes they may differ. In this example, it is important that the observed holiday be listed first. Otherwise, Jan 1 will be marked as a holiday and then the observed date will check Jan 1, but where it is not a business day, it will move to another day (due to the DWD modifier). Likewise, the two holidays: 3rd Sunday in June = Father's Day Jun 17 = Bunker Hill Day sometimes fall on the same day. Using the Date::Manip::Date::list_holidays method (or the Date_IsHoliday function), you can get a list of all names that the date contains. EVENTS
The Events section of the config file is similar to the Holiday section. It is used to name certain days or times, but there are a few important differences: Events can be assigned to any time and duration All holidays are exactly 1 day long. They are assigned to a period of time from midnight to midnight. Events can be based at any time of the day, and may be of any duration. Events don't affect business mode calculations Unlike holidays, events are completely ignored when doing business mode calculations. Whereas holidays were added with business mode math in mind, events were added with calendar and scheduling applications in mind. Every line in the events section is of the form: EVENT = NAME where NAME is the name of the event, and EVENT defines when it occurs and its duration. An EVENT can be defined in the following ways: Date YMD YM Recur Date ; Date YMD ; YMD YM ; YM Date ; Delta Recur ; Delta Date refers to a full date/time (and is any string that can be parsed by Date::Manip::Date::parse). YMD is any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip::Date::parse_date. YM is any string which can be parsed by the parse_date method to give a date in the current year. Recur is a partial or fully specified recurrence. Delta is any string that can be parsed to form a delta. With the "Date" form, or the "Recur" form, the event starts at the time (or times) specified by the date or recurrence, and last 1 hour long. With the "YMD" and "YM" forms, the event occurs on the given day, and lasts all day. With all of the two part forms ("Date;Date", "YM;YM", etc.), the event starts at the first date and goes to the second date, or goes an amount of time specified by the delta. The "YMD;YMD" and "YM;YM" forms means that the event lasts from the start of the first date to the end of the second. In the Date;Date form, the event goes from the first date to the second date inclusive. In other words, both dates are in the event. In the "Date;Delta" and "Recur;Delta" forms, the Delta tells the length of the event. Also, in the Date;Date form, the second date may NOT be expressed as a delta. Currently, having an event longer than 1 year is NOT supported, but no checking is done for this. KNOWN BUGS
None known. BUGS AND QUESTIONS
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author. SEE ALSO
Date::Manip - main module documentation LICENSE
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org) perl v5.14.2 2012-06-02 Date::Manip::Holidays(3pm)
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