DATA REDUNDANCY SYSTEM AND METHOD

Techniques for performing data redundancy operations in a fault-tolerant manner. In one aspect, a primary data storage facility stores a primary copy of data and a secondary facility stores data that is redundant of the primary copy of the data. The primary facility includes a first redundancy appliance that receives a sequence of write requests and stores data for the sequence of write requests in storage associated with the primary storage facility. A second redundancy appliance shadows the first redundancy appliance and assumes the role of the first redundancy appliance in the event of a fault at the first redundancy appliance. In this way, fault tolerance is increased by the presence of the second, shadow appliance.