# ECK - DISASTER RECOVERY

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001 "2020-09-17T15:37:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aman26ps](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aman26ps/32/82604_2.png) [@aman26ps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aman26ps)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001/1 "2020-09-17T15:37:57Z")

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Hi Team,

I have a very generic question here, hoping anyone can help here.

I am looking for DR solution for ECK 1.2.1, preferably opensource. i have gone through couple of articles regarding cross cluster replication, i had few queries regarding the same:

1. is this solution opensource and can we get support from elastic regarding any issues from opensource community?
2. I see we can have a follower index and leader index , will follower index will be created automatically and all data will be backed up in a periodic manner automatically or do we need to leverage any plugin like repository-gcs

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![michael.morello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael.morello/32/47448_2.png) [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001/2 "2020-09-18T06:43:31Z")

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Cross cluster replication in Elasticsearch is part of the [Platinum or Enterprise subscription](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions). An Enterprise subscription is required if you want [ECK to manage the remote cluster settings automatically](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-remote-clusters.html). [Auto-follow patterns](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference//current/ccr-auto-follow.html) helps you to automatically create new followers.

If you also want to backup your data in a repository you have to setup a [snapshot repository](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/snapshot-restore.html) and use [snapshot lifecycle management](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/getting-started-snapshot-lifecycle-management.html) to automatically take and manage snapshots.

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**Author:** ![aman26ps](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aman26ps/32/82604_2.png) [@aman26ps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aman26ps)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001/3 "2020-09-22T06:07:54Z")

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This is helpful @michael.morello thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-disaster-recovery/249001/4 "2022-11-04T08:13:22Z")

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