A system and method for recovering from a failure is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises downloading a first patch into a base station, installing the first patch, loading the first patch, and validating the first patch. Once the first patch has been validated, a second patch may be downloaded, installed, loaded, and verified. This incremental remediation approach allows for the conservation of resources if the system is non-recoverable, as this will become evident prior to a complete download and install is performed.