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title: Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for NPSaaS
description: IBM® Netezza® Performance Server for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data as a Service service gets deployed in a single zone. When a zone goes down, NPSaaS service is brought online into another zone by a recovery strategy.
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# Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for NPSaaS
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IBM® Netezza® Performance Server for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data as a Service service gets deployed in a single zone. When a zone goes down, NPSaaS service is brought online into another zone by a recovery strategy.
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## Disaster recovery strategy
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NPSaaS uses the cloud storage snapshot technology to provide support for business continuity and disaster recovery. A snapshot is taken every day at 2 AM. Snapshots are available across three cloud zones within the same geographical region to ensure availability if a single zone fails.

The Netezza Performance Server snapshot feature currently backs up only the data stored in block storage. Data stored in object storage is not included in snapshot backups.
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If a zone failure occurs, the disaster recovery process is automatically triggered. The service quickly starts in one of the remaining zones with the latest available snapshot.