Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

Oracle Database integrations

Real-time redo transport enables continuous data protection

Oracle Database changes are sent from database server memory to the Recovery Appliance, where they are logged in real-time, protecting customer databases with sub-second recovery point objectives.

Incremental-forever backups accelerate protection

Automated, incremental-forever backups protect customer databases up to 50X faster than traditional methods, as described in the Energy Transfer video.

Backup validation improves recoverability

Recovery Appliance uses its knowledge of internal Oracle Database formats to validate backups when received and during their creation, ensuring that customer databases are always recoverable. This is crucial for ransomware protection, where data can be infiltrated in any location without warning. Backups are the critical, final layer of defense to ensure business recovery.

Virtual full backups accelerate recoveries

Recovery Appliance automatically generates a virtual full backup at the start of the recovery process, enabling up to 8X faster recoveries compared with traditional approaches, as described in the Energy Transfer video.

Copy to cloud improves disaster recovery

Databases can be protected in offsite locations using built-in capabilities for archiving backups to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or replicating them to remote Recovery Appliance systems.

Learn more

• Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (1:47)
• Wikibon analysis: Improve total cost of ownership and value (PDF)

High availability and performance

Redundant design increases availability

A scalable design with no single-point-of-failure and fault resiliency allows IT teams to protect and recovery customer databases across component, server, and storage failures.

Proactive fault management increases availability

Built-in automation proactively checks for potential failures and repairs or disables these components to ensure availability of the appliance. Automatic logging of maintenance requests reduces system administrator workloads and accelerates repairs.

Scalability enables data protection as a service

Starting with 2 PB of virtual full backup capacity and easily scaling to more than 200 PB, Recovery Appliance has the flexibility to protect databases throughout the enterprise.

High throughput protects enterprise databases

Recovery Appliance sustains up to 24 TB/hour of data-protection performance per rack, the equivalent of 240 TB/hour of virtual full backups, so database administrators (DBAs) can rapidly back up and recover databases. Each system may be scaled up to 18 racks, providing 432 TB/hour throughput and enabling enterprises to protect more than 4 PB/hour of database data with virtual full backups.

Validation offload improves database performance

Optimizations with Oracle Database, including backup validation offload to the Recovery Appliance, reduce database server overhead by up to 25% (PDF) so customer’s production databases run at the highest possible performance during backups.

Learn more

• ESG analysis: Eliminating data loss headaches (PDF)
• Oracle’s Recovery Appliance, Fast and integrated (0:42)

Management integrations

Automated operations eliminate manual tasks

Recovery Appliance automation reduces database administrator (DBA) workloads, eliminating up to 80% of the manual tasks required to backup and recover a database, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

Built-in integration lower costs

Built-in, full-stack integration reduces customers’ hardware requirements and management workloads, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) by over 30% compared to traditional, purpose-built backup appliances.

Policy-based protection enhances recoverability

Database administrators (DBAs) define multiple tiers of data-protection policies and apply them to different classes of databases throughout the enterprise, optimizing recoverability while managing costs.

Unified cloud management simplifies database administration

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control gives database administrators (DBAs) a complete, end-to-end view of the data-protection lifecycle, so they can quickly understand database status, identify issues, and take corrective actions.

Continuous monitoring simplifies compliance

Continuous monitoring of database recoverability with built-in alerting and report generation make it easier for enterprises to meet compliance requirements.

Learn more

• ESG analysis: Meeting GDPR requirements with Oracle engineered systems (PDF)

Core capabilities

Protect Oracle Database on any platform

Recovery Appliance simplifies Oracle Database protection in customer data centers with backup, recovery, and archiving of databases running on Oracle engineered systems and virtually any server/operating system combination.

Automation reduces human errors

Automated database protection, validation, and recovery of customer databases eliminates many human errors, reducing by 98% the likelihood of database administrators (DBAs) having to do a manual recovery, as discussed in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

Backup and Recover Anywhere

Database-aware backup synchronization automatically occurs between systems in a replication configuration. This allows backup and recovery service level agreements (SLAs) to be preserved in virtually any failure scenario, whether affecting the database or appliance.

Retention goals enforced throughout backup lifecycle

Recovery goals for the database are policy controlled, so customers can customize protection for replicated backups and archiving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or tape systems.

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) integration eliminates retraining

Database administrators (DBAs) utilize familiar RMAN techniques to protect and recover databases, simplifying the implementation of data protection as a service across the enterprise.

Learn more

• Datasheet: Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (PDF)

Security

Centralized administration increases security

Centralized application of data-protection policies ensures that local database administrators (DBAs) can’t accidentally or maliciously delete backups, while role-based administration limits unauthorized access to them.

End-to-end validation protects against attacks

Identifying an inconsistent backup is key to uncovering malware or ransomware attacks. The Recovery Appliance checks all incoming and replicated backups for Oracle block correctness, allowing administers to immediately quarantine systems and conduct further investigations.

Hardened system architecture reduces risks

The Recovery Appliance is built using the rigorously tested, industry-hardened Exadata architecture. This architecture helps reduce an IT organization's overall surface area of attack through consolidation and consistent secure management of database backups.

Immutability of backups protects against accidental/malicious deletion

Immutable backup preserves integrity of backup data and often used as a last line of defense layer against malware and ransomware attacks. Some industries are requiring this increased layer of backup security to address compliance regulations.

Backup retention capabilities to address legal hold requirements

At times an exceptional retention state is required to preserve backups for legal discovery and and forensics purposes. Backups may be designated “Legal Hold” and will not be deleted until the “hold” requirement is removed.

Learn more

• Compliance Assessment Report on Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (PDF)

Lower costs

Lower system pricing cuts infrastructure costs

Recovery Appliance base system pricing has been reduced by 50%, which when combined with increased storage capacity lowers an organization's operational costs by up to 62% (PDF). Regardless of size, all deployments cost less since they start with a base system and benefit from increased storage capacity.

Consolidation and data reduction reduce enterprise-wide costs

Consolidating enterprise-wide database protection while using database-aware compression and deduplication eliminates inefficient, standalone solutions and shrink storage requirements by up to 40%, as discussed in Swisscom’s video.

Eliminating unplanned downtime increases revenue

Optimized recovery of Oracle databases enables customers to shorten unplanned outages and, as discussed in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF), reduce their revenue impact by up to 47%.

Automation reduces administrative costs

Recovery Appliance automation improves database administrator (DBA) productivity and lowers costs by reducing the typical number of backup and recovery steps by more than 80%, as discussed in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

Incremental-forever backups reduce networking costs

Efficient server-side awareness of database changes dramatically reduces backup network traffic, lowering customers’ operational expenses.

Learn more

• Read Wikibon’s analysis (PDF)
• Read IDC Infographic (PDF)

Recovery Service in OCI

Recovery Service brings real-time data protection to OCI

Built on the proven technology foundation of Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, Recovery Service adds end-to-end cloud automation for ease of use and cloud economics that make higher availability and resiliency available for any size organization or budget.

Cloud automation makes database backups easy

Configure automatic backups and optionally enable real-time data protection for continuous transaction protection in less than five clicks. Recovery is just as easy—simply choose the desired recovery point, including the latest point possible, a user-specified time, or user-selected system change number, and click to restore the database.

Enforced backup encryption provides high security

Backup encryption is enforced for all protected databases, providing increased security by rendering backups unusable without encryption keys—which are never stored on Recovery Service.

Backup retention safeguards protect against accidental or malicious deletion

Recovery Service enforces a 14-day minimum recovery that can be extended to 95 days. Backups can’t be arbitrarily deleted by the user, and if a protected database is deleted its backups will be retained for a minimum of 72 hours, providing a buffer period that lets the database be recovered after an accidental deletion.

Choice of subscriptions reduces cost for lower-tier databases

For databases with less stringent service-level agreements, customers can minimize costs by using Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service, which includes all capabilities except real-time data protection.