01 · the aim

Keep a business running on its hardest day.

Business continuity is the practice of staying ready to serve customers through any disruption, and recovery brings the systems and the data back to a healthy state. In this short lesson you meet a small recovery appliance, the kind a business keeps on site to protect its files and to bring them back quickly.

Continuity

The plan that keeps a business open and serving people while a disruption is handled in the background.

Recovery

The steps that restore the systems and the data to a known healthy point so work continues with confidence.

Step one
LookRotate the appliance and study its front and its rear.
Step two
ReadFind each port and learn the job it does.
Step three
CheckAnswer four friendly questions, each one answerable by looking at the device.
02 · the appliance

Meet the Continuity Appliance.

Drag to rotate, switch between the front and the rear, and select any port to learn its job. Then play the recovery story to watch the status lights move from protected through risk to restored.

POWER
ON
STATUS
POWER
NETWORK
USB
VIDEO
Recovery story
ProtectedData protected and the recovery point is recent.
03 · quick checks

Four quick checks.

Answer each one by looking at the appliance. Every answer brings a friendly note so the learning keeps going.

1

Match each port to its job.

The rear has four ports. Pick the one that fits each job. Each row gives a friendly note.

Keep it powered
Reach the network
Attach a backup drive
Show a screen
2

Click where a backup drive connects.

This is the rear panel. Select the port that welcomes an external backup drive.

3

Read the status light.

The status light tells a quick story about recovery. Pick the reading that fits each colour.

Green light
Amber light
Red light
4

Reason about the last backup.

The last backup finished at 9:00 AM and the clock now reads 11:00 AM. About how much recent work would the team plan to redo after a restart right now?

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