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Switching Over and Switching Back

Switchover and Switchback is the process in which active and passive roles are exchanged between the Master and Replica servers, so that if the Master is currently active, it changes to passive after Switchover passes the active role to the Replica. If the Replica is active, it changes to passive after Switchover passes the active role to the Master. Switchover can be triggered at the push of a button or automatically by Arcserve RHA when it detects that the Master is unavailable, if you enabled the Perform Switchover Automatically option from the Switchover and Reverse Initiation dialog. When this option is Off, the system notifies you that the Master server is down so you can manually initiate switchover from the Arcserve RHA Manager.

This section contains the following topics:

How Switchover and Switchback Work

Initiate Switchover

Initiate Switchover for a Group

Initiate Switchback

Initiate Switchback for a Group

Switchover Considerations