Overview of the recovery process

The recovery process encompasses a set of tasks that include both analysis and procedures.

When you must recover from a failure, these are the high-level steps to follow:

• Familiarize yourself with the possible kinds of failures. See Triggers for recovery for more information.
• Assess the state of the system. See Assessing the state of the system for more information.
• Form a hypothesis about what the problem is.
• Collect and analyze the data.
• Refer to other topics in this information center for instructions on fixing the problem.