US Patent 10567500 Continuous backup of data in a distributed data store

A distributed data store may provide continuous backup for data stored in the distributed data store. Updates to data may be replicated amongst storage nodes according to a peer-to-peer replication scheme. A backup node may participate in the peer-to-peer replication scheme to identify additional updates to be applied to a backup version of the data in a separate data store. The backup node may obtain the updates according to the peer-to-peer replication scheme and update the backup version of the data. In some embodiments, configuration changes to the data in the distributed data store may be detected via the peer-to-peer replication scheme such that a backup node can adapt performance of backup operations in conformity with the configuration change.