Use Standby Databases with Autonomous Data Guard for Disaster Recovery

When you add an Autonomous Data Guard standby database, Autonomous AI Database provides data protection and disaster recovery for your database.

Autonomous AI Database Disaster Recovery Options

• Autonomous Data Guard: When you add an Autonomous Data Guard standby database, the system creates a standby database that continuously gets updated with the changes from the primary database. You can use Autonomous Data Guard with a standby in the current region, a local standby, or with a standby in a different region, a cross-region standby. You can also use Autonomous Data Guard with both a local standby and a cross-region standby.

  You can also create an Autonomous Data Guard standby in a different tenancy.

  Autonomous Data Guard is available for the following workload types:

  • Lakehouse
  • Transaction Processing

• Backup-Based Disaster Recovery: uses backups to instantiate a peer database at the time of switchover or failover. This enables you to have a lower cost and higher Recovery Time Objective (RTO) disaster recovery option for your Autonomous AI Database, as compared with Autonomous Data Guard. For local Backup-Based Disaster Recovery, existing local backups are utilized. There are no additional costs for a local Backup-Based Disaster Recovery. Cross-Region Backup-Based Disaster Recovery incurs an additional cost. See Use Backup-Based Disaster Recovery for details on Backup-Based Disaster Recovery.

  Backup-Based Disaster Recovery is available for all workload types.

Topics

• About Standby Databases
  Provides information about enabling and using Autonomous Data Guard for disaster recovery on Autonomous AI Database.
• Enable Autonomous Data Guard
  To enable Autonomous Data Guard you update the disaster recovery type to use a standby database.
• Update Standby to Use a Backup Copy Peer
  Describes the steps to change the disaster recovery type from Autonomous Data Guard standby database to Backup-Based Disaster Recovery.
• Autonomous Data Guard Switchover and Failover Operations
  Describes switchover and failover operations with an Autonomous Data Guard standby database.
• Autonomous Data Guard Cross-Region and Cross Tenancy Operations
  Describes cross-region and cross tenancy operations with Autonomous Data Guard.
• Events and Notifications for a Standby Database
  You can use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events to be notified of and to specify rules to automatically respond to Autonomous Data Guard operations.
• Autonomous AI Database Cross-Region Paired Regions
  Autonomous AI Database provides paired regions for creating cross-region databases, including cross-region clones and cross-region disaster recovery peers.
• Use the API
  Provides links for details on using API operations to manage Autonomous Data Guard.
• Autonomous Data Guard Notes
  Provides notes for using Autonomous AI Database with an Autonomous Data Guard standby database.