From the course: Azure Event Hubs for Developers

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Enabling geo-recovery

Enabling geo-recovery

- [Instructor] In this demo, we are going to discuss disaster recovery. Let's say you have the following scenario, you have a couple of Producers that generate events and we have the Event Hub inside our namespace and a couple of Consumers. Now, if our region has problems that means that our Event Hub will go offline. At this point, the Producers will not be able to send data, as well as the receivers will not be able to read any data. What you can do is have a Backup Event Hub in place. So if the first one is offline, then you can use a backup so you can send data and then process them. After that, when the main one becomes online you can switch back to that. But in order to do this, you have to change the configuration of our Producers and the Consumers, which means that we manually have to update the Producers to point to the new connection string as well as the hub and the Consumer groups. And we…

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