With Sandy and some of the new questions popping up like this one:

http://serverfault.com/questions/447092/all-servers-flooded-by-salt-water-is-it-possible-to-recover-data-from-multi-pla

It seems like we may want to setup a standard data recovery question that lists potential things to do in the event of a data recovery scenario.  By default all questions like this tend to solicit lots of debate and ideas as to what can be done.

Should we setup a new canonical answer regarding data recovery and then mark all others as duplicates?