Accidents happen. Is your Oracle disaster recovery plan ready?

No one wakes up and decides to stub their toe or trip on that last step—accidents happen. But when your databases take a tumble, data loss isn’t an option. Instead, you need a fully equipped Oracle disaster recovery plan, bandages and all.

Our portfolio of disaster recovery solutions is here to stitch up any data wound, supporting:

• Asynchronous and synchronous storage replication   
• Replication of nondatabase data, such as application server binaries   
• Use of disaster recovery resources for development and testing   
• Use of replicated data to refresh development and testing systems   
• Nondisruptive disaster recovery testing 

We’ll have you on the mend in no time, making your Oracle databases ultraresilient and ready for whatever comes next. 

To build your Oracle disaster recovery solution, start by determining your business application requirements. How much loss or downtime can you take before you need to send in your reinforcements? 

• Recovery point objective (RPO): maximum tolerable data loss 
• Recovery time objective (RTO): maximum tolerable business application downtime 

Determining RPO and RTO directly affects the technical options available. If you draw a hard line and determine you can’t tolerate any data loss or downtime, you’ll end up with a more expensive and complicated Oracle disaster recovery solution than you probably need. No two virtual villains are the same size, so you can assign different RTO and RPO requirements to different failure situations, from a local power outage to a complete data center failure. 

When you’ve set your requirements, you’ll have a clear path to a disaster recovery plan that makes the most sense for your business. When trouble arises, all that’s left to do is hit your Oracle disaster recovery go button.

Protecting your Oracle environment requires balancing a lot of concerns: budget, downtime, and those elusive zero-data-loss goals. Oracle database backup and replication solutions from NetApp help you strike that balance, shrinking database backup time from 15 hours to 15 minutes and slashing replication storage costs by more than 80%.

With any good treatment plan, consistency is key. And with any good disaster recovery plan, consistent backups are no different. Italgas, Europe’s third largest gas distribution company, migrated their entire data center (including 55 large Oracle databases) to Microsoft Azure. And with this migration, they needed greater control of database performance and disaster recovery. 

Italgas called in the specialists: NetApp and Microsoft. Together, the teams helped Italgas develop testing scenarios that meet targeted performance metrics under stringent cost constraints. No more on-premises backup—now, Italgas has consistent backups in a fraction of the time, down from 15 hours to 15 minutes.

With a production capacity of 4.2 million tons of cement per year, DG Khan can’t afford any downtime when something goes wrong. And with storage needs growing by up to 20% each year, the cement company needed something tougher than a Band-Aid—and something easier to manage. 

Enter NetApp. With our solutions for Oracle, DG Khan now runs an infrastructure that includes a disaster recovery site, with data replication across both locations. Compression accelerates the replication process by reducing the amount of data, and the whole storage environment is managed through a unified system manager.  

No silos, no data loss. Now that’s an Oracle disaster recovery upgrade.