In a data-centric world, maintaining continuous database operations is crucial for business success, and CockroachDB's distributed architecture offers robust resilience to aid in this. Despite its inherent fault tolerance, a disaster recovery (DR) plan is necessary to protect against large-scale incidents. The blog post highlights CockroachDB's DR features, specifically focusing on Physical Cluster Replication (PCR) for cloud version 25.3, which offers a more advanced alternative to traditional backup and restore methods by providing near-synchronous replication to a standby location, thereby minimizing data loss and downtime. PCR allows for low Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) by maintaining a "warm standby" that can quickly take over in the event of a failure. This method not only ensures high availability and data protection but also simplifies disaster recovery management by replicating data at the cluster level and offering additional benefits such as offloading read-only workloads. The post further details the setup and monitoring of PCR on CockroachDB Cloud, emphasizing its streamlined process and integration with tools like Datadog and Prometheus for real-time monitoring.