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The four types of failover

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The four types of failover

- [Instructor] Disaster recovery planning is all about planning for a failover. The idea is that when a disaster happens, you really don't want to have to restore a backup if you can keep from it. It's far better to be able to simply transition your critical workloads over to another system and begin running them there rather than having to perform a restoration. Now, there are four different types of failovers that can occur. The first one is a cold failover. A cold failover is a completely manual process. The idea is that you'll have to do a little bit of pre-planning, but when a disaster happens, you're going to have to do a significant amount of work in order to make a cold failover happen. The next option is a pilot light failover. When you perform a pilot light failover, what you're doing is staging resources ahead of time. But even though those resources are in place to accommodate the failover, the failover isn't…

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