Faculty machines are not backed-up by IT. It is our job as faculty to make sure that documents that we care about are on the n:\ drive or on One Drive.
The reason that there is not information about security breaches in the DR plan is that Dominican has a separate set of secuity documents. Dominican uses an outside firm to do security reviews and make recommendations. I have not asked to get this information for us because I haven't wanted to invest effort in redacting the documents.
We use acat2k12.dom.edu in our class. I consider this server to be "Tier Three". My strategy would be to backup the machine once at the beginning of the semester and if a problem occurred, restore the machine to the way it was at the beginning of the semester. We are told not to store any long term data on the server so there is no need to recover data that has been added since the beginning of the semester. Software and configuration information is not supposed to change on this server during the semester.
You pointed out that in the Dominican DR document we received 15 out of 155 pages. I did not ask or CIO for all the responses from the offices, the detailed listings to determine how much data would be backed-up from each server etc.
Tier 3 means longer to recover than tier 1. It does not mean that there would be no recovery. Since everything can't be recovered at once, it's important to have a priority list.
I will pass your questions to action CIO Todd Kleine and communicate back what I receive.