Quest Software has introduced LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle, bringing the high-performance backup compression and encryption it has offered in the SQL Server market, to the Oracle platform. According to ...

Thus, businesses can choose to implement the Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance in their data center, access those capabilities from the Oracle Public Cloud, or use them in combination.

RackWare also brings state-of-the-art Disaster Recovery and Backup to Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer.

Oracle’s existing tool for maintaining a standby database requires administrators to perform as many as 20 manual steps in order to switch to the backup database, he said.

When a failure occurs, the DBA must ascertain whether recovery is required. It is possible, though not very likely for active databases, that a failure does not impact the integrity of your data.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud is also being enhanced with cross-region disaster recovery and database replication specifically for the Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless edition.

Data backup and disaster recovery are not the same. For one thing, the backup software can fail, or the person responsible for backing up can fail. Also, backing up without recovery in mind is ...