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Hot cold failover Meaning

A redundancy strategy designed to minimize downtime during a system failure. The "hot" component is the primary, active system handling all live traffic and transactions.

The "cold" component is a backup system that is typically powered off or sitting in a non-operational state, containing older or periodic snapshots of data. When the primary system fails, the secondary "cold" system must be manually or semi-automatically brought online.

This process involves a "warm-up" period where data is restored and the system is synced to the latest possible state. This delay is known as the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

While less expensive than a "hot-hot" setup-where both systems run simultaneously and mirror each other-the hot-cold model is often sufficient for non-critical services. It provides a reliable safety net for disaster recovery without the excessive overhead of maintaining two active, high-performance environments.

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