Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

About Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service

Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service, is a fully managed service based on the on-premises Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) technology which offers modern cyber security protection for Oracle Databases of any size.

Recovery Service is the recommended solution for protecting Oracle Databases and provides the following unique advantages over Object Storage backups while keeping costs the same:

  • Achieve Faster Backups with Less Database Overhead – Recovery Service eliminates the weekly full backup and uses an offloaded incremental forever backup paradigm, so that the database CPU, memory and I/O overheads are reduced along with the backup window. Your valuable database resources can now be more focused on business needs rather than backup tasks.
  • Be Confident in Reliable Recovery – Recovery Service validates all backups for data anomalies which can impact recovery operations. Combining this validation process with immutability and enforced encryption, your data is safe, unalterable by anyone in the tenancy, and always ready for recovery in case of a ransomware attack.
  • Get Deeper Insights into your Database Protection – Recovery Service provides a centralized data protection dashboard and addresses key questions on the state of your database backups. Are my backups healthy? How long has it been since my last backup? How far back can I recover? How much space is my backup using? Are all my databases using the same retention policy?
Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service is a unique solution which builds on the preceding advantages and enables an additional capability:
  • Zero Data Loss for all Database Backups – The premium Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service provides real-time protection of the database, enabling recovery to within less than a second of when an outage or ransomware attack occurs. Now, if a ransomware attack happens, you know you are protected up to the moment before instead of having to go back to the last scheduled backup, which could have been hours ago.

Select Autonomous Recovery Service as the backup destination for Oracle managed automatic backups, which is the method that Oracle recommends for backing up Oracle Cloud Databases.