During regular business hours, a primary database server experiences a catastrophic hardware failure. Given that financial transactions rely on uninterrupted database access, which course of action will BEST ensure continued transaction processing with minimal downtime?
Begin restoring the most recent backup to a new server, which might take a few hours.
Activate a failover database server that immediately assumes the operations of the failed server.
Reboot the server to determine if it was a temporary issue before taking further actions.
Contact technical support to start a remote hardware diagnostic evaluation.