Correct Answer: Regularly taking Persistent Disk snapshots and copying them to the secondary region
Regional PDs only replicate across zones in one region. For inter-region DR with a 15-minute RTO, copying PD snapshots to a remote region and having infrastructure templates (like ...
Correct Answer
Regularly taking Persistent Disk snapshots and copying them to the secondary region
Why This Answer Is Correct
Regional PDs only replicate across zones in one region. For inter-region DR with a 15-minute RTO, copying PD snapshots to a remote region and having infrastructure templates (like terraform) ready is the standard approach.
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