Use Backup-Based Disaster Recovery
Backup-Based Disaster Recovery provides a lower-cost disaster recovery option for Autonomous Database (the RTO is higher with this option, as compared to using Autonomous Data Guard).
Autonomous Database Disaster Recovery Options
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Backup-Based Disaster Recovery: uses backups to instantiate a peer database at the time of switchover or failover. This enables you to have a lower cost and higher Recovery Time Objective (RTO) disaster recovery option for your Autonomous Database, as compared with Autonomous Data Guard. For local Backup-Based Disaster Recovery, existing local backups are utilized. There are no additional costs for a local Backup-Based Disaster Recovery. Cross-Region Backup-Based Disaster Recovery incurs an additional cost.
Backup-Based Disaster Recovery is available for all workload types.
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Autonomous Data Guard: When you add an Autonomous Data Guard standby database, the system creates a standby database that continuously gets updated with the changes from the primary database. You can use Autonomous Data Guard with a standby in the current region, a local standby, or with a standby in a different region, a cross-region standby. You can also use Autonomous Data Guard with both a local standby and a cross-region standby.
You can also create an Autonomous Data Guard standby in a different tenancy.
Autonomous Data Guard is available for the following workload types:
- Data Warehouse
- Transaction Processing
See Use Standby Databases with Autonomous Data Guard for Disaster Recovery for details on Autonomous Data Guard.
Topics
- About Backup-Based Disaster Recovery
Backup-Based Disaster Recovery uses backups to instantiate a peer database at the time of switchover or failover. This enables you to have a lower cost and higher Recovery Time Objective (RTO) disaster recovery option for your Autonomous Database, as compared with Autonomous Data Guard. - View Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Peer
Backup-Based Disaster Recovery with a local peer is enabled by default for a newly created Autonomous Database instance, and for existing databases. A local Backup-Based Disaster Recovery peer does not incur any additional cost. - Update Disaster Recovery Type
Describes the steps to change to an alternative Disaster Recovery option. - Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Switchover and Failover Operations
Describes switchover and failover operations with an Backup-Based Disaster Recovery peer database. - Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Cross-Region Operations
Describes cross-region operations with Backup-Based Disaster Recovery. - Backup-Based Disaster Recovery Events
You can use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure events to respond when Autonomous Database changes its state due to a Backup-Based Disaster Recovery related event. - Use the API
Provides links for details on using API operations to manage Backup-Based Disaster Recovery.
Parent topic: High Availability