In the event of a failure or disaster that affects SCOM, you need to have a plan in place to recover SCOM and to minimize data loss due to the disaster. This requires you to have a well-documented Disaster Recovery (DR) plan. Because your backup strategy is an integral part of any DR plan, thoroughly review the recipe in this chapter on Running daily, weekly, and monthly recommended tasks. Although you may never have to recover from a complete loss of SCOM, your DR plan must have contingencies in place for any failure scenarios including but not limited to a complete loss of SCOM in your infrastructure.