// THREAT DETECTION AND DATA PRIVACY TERM
Failback
Failback is the process of returning operations and data to the original, primary system after a failover to a secondary or backup system has occurred due to an incident or outage.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Failback is a critical incident response and disaster recovery process involving the controlled migration of services and data from a secondary, redundant system (which assumed operations during a failover event) back to the repaired, validated, and primary production environment to ensure business continuity and data consistency.
SYNONYMS & ALIASES
- Reversion
- Restore primary
- Return to production
- Switchback
USAGE NOTE
Failback procedures are crucial for completing incident recovery, often requiring careful synchronization and testing to prevent data loss or service interruption during the transition back to the main systems.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Failback.
Veeam offers backup, recovery, and replication solutions that include robust failback capabilities for virtual, physical, and cloud environments, critical for cybersecurity and business continuity.
Zerto specializes in IT resilience, providing continuous data protection, disaster recovery, and efficient failback solutions to ensure rapid recovery from cyber incidents and maintain operational uptime.
Rubrik provides data security, backup, and disaster recovery solutions with failback capabilities to restore operations securely and efficiently after cyberattacks or outages, ensuring data resilience.
Cohesity offers data security and management, including backup, recovery, and disaster recovery with failback functionality to restore enterprise data and applications quickly and securely.
Acronis provides cyber protection solutions that combine backup, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity, incorporating failback capabilities to restore systems after incidents.
Dell Technologies offers a broad portfolio of enterprise storage and data protection solutions, including disaster recovery and failback components essential for critical infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity.
IBM provides comprehensive IT infrastructure and services, including disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and business continuity solutions with failback to ensure operational resilience.
Azure Site Recovery, a service within Microsoft Azure, provides disaster recovery as a service with robust failover and failback capabilities for virtual machines and applications, supporting cloud security and resilience.
AWS offers services like AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) which provides robust failover and failback capabilities for on-premises and cloud workloads, crucial for maintaining business continuity and security.