It depends strongly on business needs. I work in healthcare, we need systems up 24x7 and people's lives literally depend on them, so Kimberly's statement is a valid one for me - although again the point Gail makes about what data is missing is also important. There is no point getting a db online with critical data to run the system is missing. Also to bear in mind many times is the cost of downtime vs loss of data. It costs money to maintain backups (disk space, off site storage, technology to do the backup or compression...). It even costs money if you consider the fact that i have to run a reindexing job in simple recovery mode and during that time i will not have backups. How much is all that compared to cost of loss of data? A good DR strategy is worked out with due consideration to all these factors and putting business needs in right order.