About the Recovery Appliance
The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is a backup and recovery solution that is specifically engineered to protect your Oracle Database data. It offers a massively scalable repository that records all delta changes (that is, differences) across hundreds to thousands of databases.
The Database Delta Push technology enables Oracle DBAs to run one full Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup, and thereafter run only incremental backups, from each database to the Recovery Appliance. There are no recurring full backups, tape backups, or RMAN backup deletion, validation, and maintenance commands.
In the event of a disaster, DBAs can recover any database to any point in time in the recovery window or within subseconds of the current time. The Database Delta Store virtual full backup technology constructs physical backups from the resident incremental blocks, in response to RMAN database restore requests.
You can easily and quickly replicate backups on a local Recovery Appliance over a secure network to a remote Recovery Appliance for protection against server or site outage. Only the changed blocks are replicated. Virtual full backups on the remote Recovery Appliance are available for database restore operations.
Autonomous tape archives further protect against site disasters. Recovery Appliance automates the copying of virtual full or incremental backups to tape, for long-term retention and archival purposes. Recovery Appliance is preinstalled with tape backup software and support for an optional 16 Gb fiber channel card on each compute server, to connect directly to the tape hardware.
You can manage this entire infrastructure with end-to-end visibility into the status of data protection to ensure that data can be recovered successfully at any time. The primary administrative tools are Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and the RMAN command interface.