1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Introduction to Recovery Appliance
  3. Oracle's Recovery Appliance Solution
  4. Improved End-to-End Data Protection Visibility

Improved End-to-End Data Protection Visibility

In traditional database backup techniques, management of the database, media server, and tape drives are often separated. For example, a DBA group may manage the databases, while a separate backup administrator group manages the backups, and a storage group manages the disk and tape devices. The overall process lacks visibility, which makes it difficult to manage backups for thousands of databases, each with different recovery requirements.

Cloud Control provides a complete, end-to-end view into the backup lifecycle managed by the Recovery Appliance, from the time the RMAN backup is initiated on the database, to when it is stored on disk, tape, or replicated to a downstream Recovery Appliance. Recovery Appliance monitoring and administration are enabled through installation of the Enterprise Manager for Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance plug-in (Recovery Appliance plug-in).

Using Cloud Control to manage a Recovery Appliance provides the following benefits:

  • Standard metrics such as overall backup performance, and aggregate or per-database space consumption

  • Immediate alerts about any backup or Recovery Appliance issues

    For example, Cloud Control may alert the administrator if no backup is available to meet the defined RPO, or if corrupt backups are discovered.

  • Status reports, enabled by BI Publisher, are useful for capacity planning and to identify protected databases that are not meeting recovery window goals

    For example, Recovery Appliance administrators can receive reports on historical space and network usage to identify backup volume and throughput trends. These trends may necessitate adding storage servers to an existing rack or connecting additional racks.

Although Cloud Control is the recommended user interface for Recovery Appliance administration, Oracle supplies the DBMS_RA PL/SQL package as a command-line alternative. Most tasks in this manual provide both Cloud Control and DBMS_RA techniques. For command-line monitoring and reporting, you can query the Recovery Appliance catalog views.

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