what is the purpose of system recovery?
Rebuilding a computer system after a disaster so that its operating system and other software may be reinstalled. Compare with system restore. Use system recovery in a sentence. The system recovery process was began by the IT professional for our department, fortunately we just had to wait an hour for it to finish. Our computer system was destroyed after the fire but the local college volunteered some students to help with the system recovery and to see if we could retrieve any of the data.