# Delete Active-Active databases

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When you delete an Active-Active database (formerly known as CRDB),
all instances of the Active-Active database are deleted from all participating clusters.


This action is immediate, non-reversible, and has no rollback.


Because Active-Active databases are made up of instances on multiple participating clusters,
to restore a deleted Active-Active database you must create the database again with all of its instances
and then restore the data to the database from backup.

We recommended that you:

- Back up your data and test the restore on another database before you delete an Active-Active database.
- Consider [flushing the data](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/import-export/flush.md) from the database
    so that you can keep the Active-Active database configuration and restore the data to it if necessary.