Every environment and site is unique, and every company has different requirements, depending on the amount of time recovery can take, archiving resources, and other factors. You must consider these differences before you start with disaster recovery.
- Ensure that your storage system is at a different location from the production system.
- Keep the archiving media offsite.
- If you are using SnapMirror to mirror your data, keep the storage system safe by storing the destination SnapMirror volumes in a different physical location than your primary production system.
- If you are using archiving the archive media should be located offsite.
- Ensure that more than one person knows how to restore the system.
- Record your Exchange data configuration, and keep detailed records and logs of changes you make to your Windows and Exchange environments.
- Keep hard copy duplicates of your records offsite.
