1 Introduction to Recovery Appliance

The cloud-scale Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, commonly known as Recovery Appliance, is an Engineered System designed to dramatically reduce data loss and backup overhead for all Oracle databases in the enterprise. Integrated with Recovery Manager (RMAN), the Recovery Appliance enables a centralized, incremental-forever backup strategy for large numbers of databases, using cloud-scale, fault-tolerant hardware and storage. The Recovery Appliance continuously validates backups for recoverability.

This chapter contains the following topics: