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title: "Running Permanent Failover"
description: "To perform permanent failover for a plan in the FAILOVER state: Navigate to Recovery Plans. Select the plan and click Run. In the Progress Plan window, do the following: For security purposes, retype your password and click Next."
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breadcrumb: "User Guide > Working with Recovery Plans > Working with CDP Replica Plans > Running and Scheduling CDP Replica Plans > Finalizing Failover > Running Permanent Failover"
dateModified: "2026-08-26"
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# Running Permanent Failover

To perform permanent failover for a plan in the *FAILOVER* state:

1. Navigate to **Recovery Plans**.
2. Select the plan and click **Run**.
3. In the **Progress Plan** window, do the following:

   1. For security purposes, retype your password and click **Next**.
   2. In the **Recovery actions** section, select the **Permanent failover** option.
   3. Review configuration information and click **Run**.

::: note

Failback will no longer be an option once the permanent failover process is complete.

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[![Running Permanent Failover](images/permanent_failover.png "Running Permanent Failover")](images/permanent_failover.png){.toggle scale=65}