# Me and my shadow (link!): Disaster recovery replication made easy

DevFeed: [Me and my shadow (link!): Disaster recovery replication made easy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/me-and-my-shadow-link-disaster-recovery-replication-made-easy-12770.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.redpanda.com/blog/shadow-linking-disaster-recovery-replication-made-easy>)

Author: Paul Wilkinson

Published: 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Redpanda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redpanda.md>)

Topics: [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [failover](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/failover.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains Redpanda Shadow Linking as a built-in disaster recovery feature for continuous replication between streaming clusters. It describes an active-passive architecture in which a read-only shadow cluster receives topics, schemas, offsets, ACLs, commits, and messages, then becomes writable after failover.

## Source excerpt

Shadow Linking made simple. Get started with real-time replication.