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Introduction

This chapter contains concepts, procedures, and information that help you prepare for recovering data after a disaster. It is important that you develop a plan for recovering from a disaster where valuable data, a disk, or an entire system has been destroyed.

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Different Types of Disasters

Typically, the four types of disasters you might experience are as follows: *Critical data other than the operating system (OS) or the Backup software is
damaged or destroyed. This disaster applies to both Backup clients and servers.

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Critical Data is Lost on a Secondary Disk

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In FIGURE 1-2on page 2, the operating system has been damaged or destroyed. This situation can occur on Backup clients and servers.

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