Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Features

Enterprise capabilities with database intelligence strengthen your cyber readiness
Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is co-engineered with Oracle Database, building upon proven Oracle Data Guard redo transport and Recovery Manager (RMAN) technologies to deliver the highest level of data protection and validated recovery readiness for Oracle Database customers.

Database recovery intelligence

Recovery Appliance software expands Oracle Database recovery technologies, delivering unique capabilities to more efficiently protect and reliably recover databases to any point in time up to the last committed transaction before an outage or cyberattack.

  • Automatically protect database transactions as they occur to achieve zero-to-subsecond recovery point objectives (RPOs)—simply enable real-time redo transport with a single click that sends redo data from the database server’s memory buffers to Recovery Appliance.
  • Strengthen your database recovery readiness out of the box with continuous, database-intelligent backup integrity validation.
  • Preserve backup and recovery service level agreements (SLAs) with automatic database-intelligent backup synchronization between database and appliance systems.
  • Reduce storage consumption by as much as 3X with backup compression and incremental forever backup strategy for Oracle databases encrypted using Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).
  • Use real-time recovery metrics to stay informed about your current recovery posture, such as current data loss exposure and point-in-time recovery window.
  • Accelerate performance and reduce overhead on database servers and networks with minimal impact database backup and restore.
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Scalability and performance

Built on a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), Recovery Appliance is highly available, massively scalable. and able to deliver fast, predictable performance—uniquely, restores are just as fast as backups.

  • Provide data protection as a service across the enterprise with the flexibility to scale storage from 2 PB to more than 282 PB of virtual full backup capacity.
  • Achieve predictably fast backup and restore performance with up to 60 TB/hour sustainable throughput per rack—the equivalent of 600 TB of virtual full backups for fast database restore.
  • Gain the flexibility you need to accommodate data growth—scale a single Recovery Appliance environment up to 18 racks and 1 PB/hour throughput with a 10 PB/hour effective virtual full backup rate.
  • Boost throughput and offload traffic from shared corporate networks using an optional, dedicated network connection with Oracle Exadata for direct database backup and recovery connectivity with Recovery Appliance.
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Built-in security

Recovery Appliance runs on an Exadata-based architecture with security-hardened software and hardware that embeds security best practices throughout to protect data without compromise or hassle.

  • Encrypt data at its source and preserve that security throughout its lifecycle without increasing backup storage consumption—Recovery Appliance compresses TDE-encrypted data during backups while offering further savings via an incremental forever backup strategy.
  • Adhere to legal hold requirements for discovery or forensics purposes by designating “Legal Hold” periods for specific databases’ backups that temporarily override current retention policies.
  • Increase security with network segregation using VLAN-tagged networks to isolate backup and restore traffic for protected databases with non-routable network zones.
  • Grant task-appropriate user rights to database and appliance administrators with fine-grained role-based access controls in line with least privilege principles.
  • Safeguard your backups with limited root access; on the rare occasion that root access is necessary, a quorum approval is required from two additional administrators to grant access for a set period of time.
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Cyber resiliency

Backups are your last line of defense to mitigate the impact of cyberattacks, avoid paying costly ransom demands, minimize downtime, and most importantly, recover without data loss.

  • Strengthen ransomware resiliency with an air-gapped cyber vault and operator-controlled network access—when open, the latest immutable backup is automatically replicated.
  • Minimize vault open windows with Recovery Appliance’s incremental forever backup strategy—only changed blocks are sent to the vault, resulting in smaller, faster replication.
  • Recover database backups quickly in a designated clean room or a location of your choice with restore of a virtual full backup, eliminating incremental restore and apply time.
  • Automatically validate incoming backup streams for block correctness and readability to detect anomalies before storing on disk, helping safeguard backups from potential cyber intrusion.
  • Replicate backups automatically or on an air-gapped schedule to increase availability and resiliency—each Recovery Appliance independently validates backup integrity.
  • Protect against accidental or malicious deletion with immutable backup policies, preserving the integrity of stored backups.
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Simplify management

Centralized, policy-based data protection management and built-in automation simplify administration and provide management consistency throughout the backup lifecycle.

  • Eliminate the management hassle of diverse RMAN scripts across your Oracle Database environments by standardizing operations with an incremental forever backup strategy.
  • Use Recovery Appliance protection policies to control how backups are managed throughout their lifecycle—retention, immutability, copy to alternate media, and automatic or air-gapped replication.
  • Quickly assess status, identify issues, and take timely corrective action with end-to-end visibility across the data-protection lifecycle using a familiar Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control interface.
  • Provide data protection as a service across the enterprise with policy-based management and out-of-the-box reporting on recovery capability, resource usage, and chargeback.
  • Get automatic alerts if data loss exposure for protected databases exceeds user-defined thresholds to help you consistently meet RPOs.
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Lower costs

Purpose-built for Oracle Database protection and cyber resiliency, Recovery Appliance delivers unique advantages to increase efficiency, performance, recovery reliability, and cost savings.

  • Reduce backup windows, network traffic, and storage consumption using an automated, incremental forever backup strategy.
  • Enhance your recovery readiness without overhead on production database servers—Recovery Appliance offloads most backup and restore processes such as RMAN backup validation.
  • Increase administrator productivity with policy-based management, an intuitive dashboard, proactive monitoring, and alerts on recovery risks.
  • Minimize downtime and shorten unplanned outages with fast, predictable database recovery.
  • Reduce cost with built-in media management and scheduling for RMAN-integrated copy to tape, cloud, or local ZFS Storage Appliance.
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