Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Disaster Recovery Patterns

In general, you should consider three main DR patterns when trying to achieve Level 1 through Level 4 DR.

Active/Passive DR Sites Pattern

Figure 59.2 illustrates this typical DR configuration, which is probably the most common in the world (for those who are doing DR). It involves a primary site (your normal environments in which you do business day in and day out) and a passive DR site. This passive DR (alternative) site can be anything and anywhere. It could be a “hot” alternate site that is ready for you to apply a current database backup to (and application image, too), or it could be a “cold” alternate site that you have to either go out and lease, co-locate with, or build completely from scratch. Microsoft also ...