Managing Backup and Recovery in Clusters

In a cluster, any node in the cluster can restore archived redo log files.

For restore and recovery in Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) database environments, you do not have to configure the instance that performs the recovery to also be the sole instance that restores all of the data files. In Oracle RAC, data files are accessible from every node in the cluster, so any node can restore archived redo log files.