Use Backup-Based Disaster Recovery

Backup-Based Disaster Recovery provides a lower-cost disaster recovery option for Autonomous AI Database (the RTO is higher with this option, as compared to using Autonomous Data Guard).

Autonomous AI Database Disaster Recovery Options

• 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.

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

• 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

  See Use Standby Databases with Autonomous Data Guard for Disaster Recovery for details on Autonomous Data Guard.