DOC CCR Disaster recovery does not handle Security configuration (#85522)

We do not support and don't plan to support disaster recovery arrangements
where Security configuration is replicated between the production and the
disaster recovery cluster because the cluster-local Security APIs assume
exclusive write on the .security system index.
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Then, <<ccr-getting-started-tutorial,set up {ccr}>> on your local machine and work Then, <<ccr-getting-started-tutorial,set up {ccr}>> on your local machine and work
through the demo from the webinar. through the demo from the webinar.
IMPORTANT: In all of these use cases, you must
<<manually-configure-security,configure security>> independently on every
cluster. The security configuration is not replicated when configuring {ccr} for
disaster recovery. To ensure that the {es} `security` feature state is backed up,
<<back-up-specific-feature-state,take snapshots>> regularly. You can then restore
the native users, roles, and tokens from your security configuration.
[discrete] [discrete]
[[ccr-disaster-recovery]] [[ccr-disaster-recovery]]
==== Disaster recovery and high availability ==== Disaster recovery and high availability