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This documentation was originally published to Redpanda's documentation and is reproduced here as a portfolio writing sample.

Shadowing — Disaster Recovery

Redpanda's Shadowing feature enables enterprise-grade disaster recovery through asynchronous, offset-preserving cross-region replication between Redpanda clusters.

This documentation set covers the full lifecycle of Shadowing — from initial setup through emergency failover procedures.

In this section​

  • Overview — Architecture, replication model, shadow link tasks, and best practices
  • Configure Shadowing — Prerequisites, shadow link creation, filtering, networking, and authentication
  • Monitor Shadowing — Status commands, metrics reference, and health check procedures
  • Failover — Planned failover procedures, failover states, and post-failover behavior
  • Failover Runbook — Emergency step-by-step guide for active disaster scenarios