# Application-based disaster recovery

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For complete control over failover and failback, you can implement disaster recovery mechanisms directly in the application server.

For more information, see [Application failover with Active-Active databases](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/active-active/develop/app-failover-active-active).