Preparing for disaster recovery of SQL Server

When you are developing your SQL Server disaster recovery plan you need to plan how to recover from corruption of the master database. You also need to plan for loss of your host machine. If the master database has been corrupted, then SQL Server does not start. When disaster happens you need to use the SQL Server rebuild master (rebuildm.exe) utility to start the SQL Server service. This utility, however, does not recreate the schema information of your application databases. To recover your database schema use the NetBackup SQL Server agent to restore your latest backup of the master database.

Disaster recovery of SQL Server assumes that you have already put in place a strategy to recovery from other sorts of data loss. Data loss can include disk, software, and human error. To prepare for disaster recovery you need to make frequent backups of the master database, minimally. Do frequent backups after you have added or dropped databases or carried out other operations that may result in schema definitions.