Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Enabling or Disabling Crash Recovery

Enable crash recovery to ensure durability and to enable data recovery in the event of an unexpected server exit.

Note

You cannot disable crash recovery on an Always Free DB system.
Use one of the following method to enable or disable crash recovery:

Using the Console

Use the Console to enable or disable crash recovery on a DB system.

This task requires the following:
  • A running DB system.
  • Automatic backups are disabled on the DB system if you want to disable crash recovery.
  • (Recommended) You have created a full backup before disabling crash recovery.
  1. To disable crash recovery on a DB system if it is currently enabled, do the following:
    1. Open the Disable crash recovery dialog box from one of the following locations:
      • The Disable crash recovery menu item from the More Actions menu on the DB systems list page.
      • The Disable crash recovery menu item from the More actions drop-down menu on the DB system details page.
      • The Disable link adjacent the Crash recovery label on the DB system details page. This link is only displayed if automatic backups are disabled.
    2. In the Disable crash recovery dialog box, select Disable crash recovery for this DB system and then select Disable.
      The DB system enters the Updating state and crash recovery is disabled.
  2. To enable crash recovery on a DB system if it is currently disabled, do the following:
    1. Open the Enable crash recovery dialog box from one of the following locations:
      • The Enable crash recovery menu item from the More Actions (3-dot) menu on the DB systems list page.
      • The Enable crash recovery menu item from the More actions drop-down menu on the DB system details page.
      • The Enable link adjacent the Crash recovery label on the DB system details page.
    2. In the Enable crash recovery dialog box, select Enable to enable crash recovery.
      The DB system enters the Updating state and crash recovery is enabled.
      Note

      Automatic backups are not automatically enabled. You must enable them manually.