Disaster Recovery Overview

Resilient deployments aim for continuity in database operations to protect from data loss and downtime. CockroachDB’s built-in Raft replication and fault tolerance provide high availability. However, it is still important to design a disaster recovery plan to recover from unforeseen incidents to minimize downtime and data loss. As you evaluate CockroachDB’s disaster recovery features, consider your organization’s requirements for the amount of tolerable data loss and the acceptable length of time to recover.

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The maximum amount of data loss (measured by time) that an organization can tolerate.
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The maximum length of time it should take to restore normal operations following an outage.

When you use backups, RPO and RTO can be visualized as follows:

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Choose a disaster recovery strategy

CockroachDB is designed to recover automatically; however, building backups or physical cluster replication into your disaster recovery planning protects against unforeseen incidents.

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See also

• Set Up Physical Cluster Replication
• Physical Cluster Replication Technical Overview
• Backup Architecture
• Backup and Restore Overview
• Managed Backups