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AI-generatedRedis Cluster master left without slots after failed upgrade: deciding between forced failover and backup restore
Redis Cluster upgrade failure recovery decision During a rolling upgrade, a node that fails after accepting writes but before completing the upgrade can leave Redis Cluster in a mixed-version state: a master may have lost its slots while a replica runs a different binary. Redis does not support downgrades, and RDB or AOF files rewritten by the newer version