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## Disaster Recovery
TDengine uses replication to provide high availability.
TDengine provides disaster recovery by using taosX to replicate data between two TDengine clusters which are deployed in two distant data centers. Assume there are two TDengine clusters, A and B, A is the source and B is the target, and A takes the workload of writing and querying. You can deploy `taosX` in the data center where cluster A resides in, `taosX` consumes the data written into cluster A and writes into cluster B. If the data center of cluster A is disrupted because of disaster, you can switch to cluster to take the workload of data writing and querying, and deploy a `taosX` in the data center of cluster B to replicate data from cluster B to cluster A if cluster A has been recovered, or another cluster C if cluster A has not been recovered.
A TDengine cluster is managed by mnodes. You can configure up to three mnodes to ensure high availability. The data replication between mnode replicas is performed in a synchronous way to guarantee metadata consistency.
You can use the data replication feature of `taosX` to build more complicated disaster recovery solution.
The number of replicas for time series data in TDengine is associated with each database. There can be many databases in a cluster and each database can be configured with a different number of replicas. When creating a database, the parameter `replica` is used to specify the number of replicas. To achieve high availability, set `replica` to 3.
The number of dnodes in a TDengine cluster must NOT be lower than the number of replicas for any database, otherwise it would fail when trying to create a table.
As long as the dnodes of a TDengine cluster are deployed on different physical machines and the replica number is higher than 1, high availability can be achieved without any other assistance. For disaster recovery, dnodes of a TDengine cluster should be deployed in geographically different data centers.
Alternatively, you can use taosX to synchronize the data from one TDengine cluster to another cluster in a remote location. However, taosX is only available in TDengine enterprise version, for more information please contact tdengine.com.
taosX is only provided in TDengine enterprise edition, for more detail please contact business@tdengine.com.
