After you determine your recovery goals, create your recovery plan. Develop a recovery plan for multiple levels of failure, as Table 5 shows.
| Failure Severity | Data Loss | Suggested Recovery Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Small | Noncritical data is lost. | Restore of the data can wait until a nonpeak time. Use a warm restore. |
| Medium | The data that is lost is critical for your business but does not reside in a critical dbspace. | Perform a warm restore of this data as soon as possible. |
| Large | Critical dbspaces are lost. | Use a mixed restore to restore the critical data right away and a warm restore to restore noncritical data during off-peak hours. |
| Disaster | All data is lost. | Perform a cold or mixed restore as soon as possible. |