--- # required metadata title: Disaster recovery for SQL Server on Linux | Microsoft Docs description: author: mihaelab ms.author: mihaelab manager: jhubbard ms.date: 03/17/2017 ms.topic: article ms.prod: sql-linux ms.technology: database-engine ms.assetid: c75717c8-c677-4033-8ca6-d0ac93aee04d # optional metadata # keywords: "" # ROBOTS: "" # audience: "" # ms.devlang: "" # ms.reviewer: "" # ms.suite: "" # ms.tgt_pltfrm: "" # ms.custom: "" --- # Business continuity and database recovery SQL Server on Linux SQL Server on Linux allows organizations to achieve a wide array of service-level agreement goals to accommodate various business requirements. The simplest solutions leverage virtualization technologies to achieve a high degree of resiliency against host-level failures, fault tolerance against hardware failures, as well as elasticity and resource maximization. These systems can run on-premises, in a private or public cloud, or hybrid environments. The simplest form of disaster recovery and protection is the database backup. Simple solutions available in SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 include: - **VM Failover** - Resilience against guest and OS level failures - Unplanned and planned events - Minimum downtime for patching and upgrades - RTO in minutes - [**Database backup and restore**](sql-server-linux-backup-and-restore-database.md) - Protection against accidental or malicious data corruption - Disaster recovery protection - RTO in minutes to hours Standard high-availability and disaster recovery techniques provide instance-level protection combined with a reliable shared storage infrastructure. For SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 standard high-availability includes: - [**Failover Cluster**](sql-server-linux-shared-disk-cluster-configure.md) - Instance level protection - Automatic failure detection and failover - Resilience against OS and SQL Server failures - RTO in seconds to minutes ## Summary SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4 on Linux includes virtualization, backup and restore, and failover clusters to support high-availability and disaster recovery.