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by RaitoBezarius 1388 days ago
Then, you had disaster recovery plans, you devised a strategy of what is an acceptable data loss, execute the reconstruction plan on the new big server, under some hours, the new big server is up again. You apologize, offer some financial compensation, etc.

And you learn from the situation, understand what are your new tolerance for data loss, failures, etc., then start new plans accordingly.