Proper routine maintenance can greatly reduce the need for disaster recovery except in the case of natural disasters. However, disasters can occur to your messaging system and cause you to lose key components or critical data. Disasters range from losing the information store when your hard disk fails to losing an entire data center during an earthquake.
The following tasks can help you recover from disasters and minimize downtime and loss of productivity:
For more information on disaster recovery planning, see Chapter 12, "Disaster Recovery."