--- title: Prevention > Recovery: Physical cluster replication description: CockroachDB offers physical cluster replication, an asynchronous and consistent way to keep two clusters up to date with zero RPO and near-zero RTO. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/prevention-recovery-physical-cluster-replication-laimhv8ow twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Prevention > Recovery: Physical cluster replication | daily.dev og:description: CockroachDB offers physical cluster replication, an asynchronous and consistent way to keep two clusters up to date with zero RPO and near-zero RTO. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/prevention-recovery-physical-cluster-replication-laimhv8ow og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/laIMhv8oW.png og:image:alt: Prevention > Recovery: Physical cluster replication og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Prevention > Recovery: Physical cluster replication **[CockroachDB](https://daily.dev/sources/cockroachdb)** · [@cockroachdb302](https://daily.dev/cockroachdb302) · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CockroachDB offers physical cluster replication, an asynchronous and consistent way to keep two clusters up to date with zero RPO and near-zero RTO. The replication process provides granular observability and control over data replication and allows for a defense-in-depth approach. Physical cluster replication offers significantly lower RPO and RTO compared to traditional backup and restore methods. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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