[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck Estates 10-11-2021. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Village of Great Neck Estates has implemented backup and disaster recovery appliances within their facility to provide proper backup and disaster recovery options. The local appliance can perform local virtualization of its servers excluding the VAX computer which houses the legacy financials. This is a temporary virtualization option should the server experience hardware failure and to provide time to replace or fix. The appliance provides a secured co-location facility site in which the local appliance replicates snapshot images of servers off-site. The Village servers will replicate all its data and applications to a server to this location through a secure high-speed internet connection.
In the event of a catastrophe where the Village's Computer Center is destroyed, or which prevents access to the servers, employees of the Village will be able to access their data from other locations if an internet connection is available. In order to accomplish this, the last replicated backup image can be virtualized and enabled via VPN connection to an off-site facility. This would be temporary, as the Village procures, sets up or resolves issues related to hardware or facility damage.
The Village policy also is to back up all of its Windows servers locally and to a secure cloud facility located off-site. A secondary location off-site serves as means of replication for the primary data center. This includes all Village servers. All of these facilities have backup appliances, and the data is replicated to the authorized cloud service.