Disaster Recovery Strategies

Disasters can occur to your messaging system and cause you to lose key components or critical data. Disasters range from losing the information store because your hard disk failed to losing an entire data center during an earthquake.

The following tasks can help you recover from disasters and minimize downtime and productivity losses:

• Perform timely backups.
• Implement a disaster recovery plan.
• Use dedicated recovery systems and recovery toolkits.
• Train administrators to implement the disaster recovery plan.
• Consider server design and configuration to prevent disasters.