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Large-scale disasters can severely disrupt Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, e.g., Data Centers. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural catastrophes may lead to such a scenario. Man-made threats, e.g., a High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), can also provoke such an aftermath. In the HEMP case, however, the aftermath might include damage even to non-terrestrial IT infrastructure, such as satellites. After any disaster, it is important that critical data located in the affected region be evacuated to secure locations where it can be useful for emergency operations, mission-critical activities, rescue and relief efforts, and society and businesses in general. To minimize the time it takes to perform this evacuation, we must use all available resources as efficiently as possible. This includes using the remaining satellites to connect the affected regions of the network to the unaffected ones …