Disaster recovery has been a natural component of the business continuity plan for many years. The most important fact to realize is that disaster recovery can be presented in many shapes and can also be transformed over a period of time within companies and organizations.

System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 can be designed and implemented by applying the disaster recovery concepts. Use a primary DPM server that manages your on-premises workloads, which builds up services and replicates the services' data dependencies to a secondary site. There, leveraging the concept of executing a failover if the primary protection fails is one part of the many disaster recovery scenarios that System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 can provide to your business continuity plan.

The most important fact regarding planning disaster recovery scenarios is that there is no best practice that you can apply. Building and planning disaster recovery concepts requires hard work, but a successful...