SQL Disaster Recovery Script

SQL disaster recovery script should be part of your overall Contingency plans. You need to create a disaster recovery plan in order to ensure that all your systems and data can be quickly restored to normal operation in the event of a natural disaster (for example, a fire) or a technical disaster (for example, a two-disk failure in a RAID-5 array).

When you create a disaster recovery plan, you prepare all the actions that must occur in response to a catastrophic event. It is recommended that you verify your disaster recovery plan through the simulation of a catastrophic event.

SQL disaster recovery script – take your specific situation into account.

Consider disaster recovery planning in light of your own environment and business needs. For example, suppose a fire occurs and wipes out your 24-hour data center. Are you certain you can recover? How long will it take you to recover and have your system available? How much data loss can your users tolerate?

Ideally, your disaster recovery plan states how long recovery will take and the final database state the users can expect. For example, you might determine that after the acquisition of specified hardware, recovery will be completed in 48 hours, and data will be guaranteed only up to the end of the previous week.

A disaster recovery plan can be structured in many different ways and can contain many types of information, including:

• A plan to acquire hardware.
• A communication plan.
• A list of people to be contacted in the event of a disaster.
• Instructions for contacting the people involved in the response to the disaster.