As it stands, the disaster recovery (DR) is a recovery action, but in the real world it must be a proactive action where preparing to recover from potential disasters is important. The proactive actions must contain a well designed and tested restore plan for the data platform. The backup and restore plan should consider the disaster recovery planning with regard to particular environmental and business needs.

The ideal need for a disaster recovery plan will ensure that all the systems and data can be quickly restored to regular operation if a disaster occurs. In this recipe, we will work on the planning and design strategy of a disaster recovery environment for the SQL Server data platform. The planning and design of a DR environment involves a strategy and process rather than the physical steps to implement essentially a checklisted process.