Randolph West has a disaster recovery plan:
I’ve had several occasions where hard drives have failed and attempts to recover data from these wonders of mechanical engineering have been mostly fruitless. I’ve experienced profound examples of data loss, in both cases losing years of email and contact details for people I met online.
This is all to say that I care deeply about data loss, and I take it personally when I’m asked to engage with potential customers to recover data in SQL Server.
This post is a high-level overview of how I tackle data recovery, whether personally or for professional consulting reasons.
Click through for the steps.