While [replication](../table_engines/replication.md#table_engines-replication) provides protection from hardware failures, it does not protect against human errors: accidentally deleting data, deleting the wrong table or on the wrong cluster, software bugs leading to incorrect data processing or data corruption. In many cases commands like these will affect all replicas. ClickHouse has built-in safeguards to prevent some of mistakes, for example by default [you can't just drop tables with MergeTree-like engine containing more than 50Gb of data](https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/blob/v18.14.18-stable/dbms/programs/server/config.xml#L322-L330), but they don't cover all possible cases and can be circumvented.
While [replication](table_engines/replication.md#table_engines-replication) provides protection from hardware failures, it does not protect against human errors: accidentally deleting data, deleting the wrong table or on the wrong cluster, software bugs leading to incorrect data processing or data corruption. In many cases commands like these will affect all replicas. ClickHouse has built-in safeguards to prevent some of mistakes, for example by default [you can't just drop tables with MergeTree-like engine containing more than 50Gb of data](https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/blob/v18.14.18-stable/dbms/programs/server/config.xml#L322-L330), but they don't cover all possible cases and can be circumvented.
So in order to effectively mitigate possible human errors, you should carefully prepare your backup and restore strategy **in advance**.
