A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for automated disaster recovery are described. The method may include creating, using a backup engine running at a computing device, a backup of a server at a primary computing site; storing the created backup at a storage device at a secondary computing site; monitoring, using a monitoring component, an operating status of the server at the primary computing site; in response to determining, via the monitoring component, that the server at the primary computing site is unavailable based on the operating status, initiating a disaster recovery process at the secondary computing site; and running a copy of the server from the created backup at the secondary computing site.