Fast Recovery Area

The fast recovery area is a unified storage location for all recovery-related files and activities in Oracle AI Database.

After this feature is enabled, all RMAN backups, archived redo log files, control file autobackups, flashback logs, and data file copies are automatically written to a specified file system or Oracle ASM disk group, and the management of this disk space is handled by RMAN and the database server.

Performing a backup to disk is faster because using the fast recovery area eliminates the bottleneck of writing to tape. More important, if database media recovery is required, then data file backups are readily available. Restoration and recovery time is reduced because you do not need to find a tape and a free tape device to restore the needed data files and archived redo log files.

The fast recovery area provides the following benefits:

Unified storage location of related recovery files
Management of the disk space allocated for recovery files, which simplifies database administration tasks
Fast, reliable, disk-based backup and restoration