Improving Your Disaster Recovery Capabilities

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Because a computer or site disaster can overcome even the best data protection strategies, you need to have a system disaster recovery plan. A disaster includes anything from not being able to start a computer to the destruction of a network when a natural disaster strikes.

To be prepared for a system failure, you should have the following:

  • Well-documented plans and procedures for recovering from failures when they occur.

  • Floppy disks that enable you to restart a computer when you have trouble using the system active or startup volume.

  • Documented software and hardware configuration information for your computers.

To reduce system recovery time, it is recommended that you perform the following tasks:

  • Put the Windows 2000 Server system and startup and data volumes on separate drives.

  • Save the disk configuration data each time you change the configuration by using Disk Management.

  • Keep a written record of disk volumes and their sizes.

The remainder of this section describes the disaster protection features of Windows 2000, which you can use to prepare your enterprise for a potential network disaster.