The only reason for performing backups is to ensure that you can restore data. Therefore, organizations need to have a solid disaster recovery (DR) strategy that ensures their backups are available, valid and restorable.

A sound DR strategy will help you to:

• Minimize data loss
• Minimize downtime

This document details best practices for developing a good disaster recovery strategy, with specific additional guidelines for Microsoft SQL Server backups. Then it offers specific details for using two Dell backup and recovery solutions, AppAssure and NetVault Backup.