Data Recovery Advisor

Data Recovery Advisor automatically diagnoses persistent (on-disk) data failures, presents appropriate repair options, and runs repair operations at your request.

You can use Data Recovery Advisor to troubleshoot primary databases, logical standby databases, physical standby databases, and snapshot standby databases.

Data Recovery Advisor includes the following functionality:

• Failure diagnosis

  The first symptoms of database failure are usually error messages, alarms, trace files and dumps, and failed health checks. Assessing these symptoms can be complicated, error-prone, and time-consuming. Data Recovery Advisor automatically diagnoses data failures and informs you about them.

• Failure impact assessment

  After a failure is diagnosed, you must understand its extent and assess its impact on applications before devising a repair strategy. Data Recovery Advisor automatically assesses the impact of a failure and displays it in an easily understood format.

• Repair generation

  Even if a failure was diagnosed correctly, selecting the correct repair strategy can be error-prone and stressful. Moreover, there is often a high penalty for making poor decisions in terms of increased downtime and loss of data. Data Recovery Advisor automatically determines the best repair for a set of failures and presents it to you.

• Repair feasibility checks

  Before presenting repair options, Data Recovery Advisor validates them with respect to the specific environment and availability of media components required to complete the proposed repair, including restoring files directly from the primary or standby database to complete the proposed repair.

• Repair automation

  If you accept the suggested repair option, Data Recovery Advisor automatically performs the repair, verifies that the repair was successful, and closes the appropriate failures.

• Validation of data consistency and database recoverability

  Data Recovery Advisor can validate the consistency of your data, and backups and redo stream, whenever you choose.

• Early detection of corruption

  Through Health Monitor, you can schedule periodic runs of Data Recovery Advisor diagnostic checks to detect data failures before a database process running a transaction discovers the corruption and signals an error. Early warnings can limit the damage caused by corruption.

• Integration of data validation and repair

  Data Recovery Advisor is a single tool for data validation and repair. Note: Data Recovery Advisor only supports single-instance databases. Oracle RAC databases are not supported.

See Also: Oracle AI Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide for information about Data Recovery Advisor supported database configurations.