1. A Disaster Recovery Plan & Learning Apparatus for Students
Data-Center Proposal
A Disaster Recovery Plan & Learning Apparatus for Students
By Emil Sadikoski

2. Summary Design and implementation of data center
Primary goal is disaster recovery
Secondary goal is to teach students
Will allow students to build servers, while developing a backup for our school’s servers
Long term project
Possible implementation with NJIT curriculum

3. Introduction Disaster recovery plan must be implemented
NJIT is prone to disaster (power outages)
Crucial data may be lost
Student accounts may be compromised
Difficulty accessing Moodle
NJIT hosts websites for each student
Data must be backed up regularly

4. Project Description Basic building and setup of servers
Implementing one-at-a-time
Servers will be using Linux server software
Will be attempting to “future-proof” as much as possible
Will use proposed budget of $30,000
Periodically implement servers to eventually backup entire school system.

5. Plan of Work Conceptualization of server build and purpose
Pricing and budgeting of materials (parts, hardware, software, etc.)
Acquisition of materials
Assembly of Materials
Installation of Software
Testing and Debugging
Final Implementation and Backup Scheduling

6. Plan of Work Conceptual Model

7. Intended Impact
Create a disaster recovery data group for backing up central systems
Also educate CCS students on how servers work
How to assemble servers, Server architecture, and software programming
Maximize efficiency in the budget
Long-term implementation
Try to coincide implementation with NJIT classes and curriculum

8. Budget Proposed budget is $30,000 Aggregate: Hardware Software Labor
Shipping
Licensing (optional)
Cost per server may vary
Buying hardware that is optimized for the system, and not overpowered

9. Timeline Month(Semester) 1st Month 2nd Month 3rd Month Final Month
Planning
Budgeting
Software Installation
Backing Up of Servers
Conceptual Modeling
Hardware search (Pricing, shipping, etc)
Software Configuring
Logging and reporting
Theory
Hardware Acquisition
Debugging & Testing
Hardware Assembly

10. Conclusion
The proposal will take be implemented over a course of roughly 5 years (10 semesters)
A server being built and finalized each semester
Students may participate voluntarily or as part of a course
Build a disaster recovery system for our school’s main servers