The critical component of an Advanced Replication system is the server that hosts the master database. After you create the master database and its schema, you should use a reliable storage medium, such as tape or CD-ROM, to ensure availability of multiple backup versions. Normal backup procedure tasks that you use for standard databases also apply to solidDB databases. For details, see Performing backup and recovery of master and replica databases.

In addition, you can make the master database fault tolerant by using RAID disks and hardware clustering in your system.

Replica databases can be reconstructed from the master database by refreshing data from the master database to a new replica database. To ensure quick recovery from disaster situations, make backups of large replica databases separately by using normal solidDB backup procedures.