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Failing back to the original Primary

After an unexpected failure, a failed Primary host might start up to find that one of its Secondaries has been promoted to a Primary by a takeover. This happens when a Secondary of this Primary has taken over the Primary role because of the unexpected outage on this Primary. The process of transferring the role of the Primary back to this original Primary is called failback.

VVR provides the following methods to fail back to the original Primary: