DR is important for most PROD clusters in enterprises. Here is a good intro: https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/43525/disaster-recovery-and-backup-best-practices-in-a-t.html https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/43575/disaster-recovery-and-backup-best-practices-in-a-t-1.html Note that there is very active work by Hortonworks on a solution focused directly on DR ... stay tuned. ... View more