Description of the illustration rep_backupanywhere

Two Recovery Appliances RA-x and RA-y and in a local data center and a remote data center, respectively. They replicate between each other, and are the upstream and downstream of each other.

Backups from databases DB-a in the local data center and DB-b in the remote data center flow to their upstream Recovery Appliance, respectively RA-x and RA-y. Then RA-x and RA-y replicate these backups to their downstream Recovery Appliance, respectively RA-y and RA-x. Backups from databases DB-a and DB-b can be sent to either RA-x or RA-y with replication occurring to the Recovery Appliance which did not receive the backups directly from the DB.