A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both terms describe two sides of the same coin, complementary processes that are often brought together.
Failover vs. Failback: Two Disaster Recovery Methods
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Our online applications exist in two separate clouds with load balancers - if one goes down the load balancers send all traffic to the active cloud. All automatically. So far in 4 years of operation we have never had a complate outage (touch wood - don't like tempting fate). There is little point having a complete secondary system sitting doing nothing until the primary fails - better to load balance across both instances and make use of the extra performance.
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