Simplify Oracle backups with instant recovery

Oracle database backup and recovery is the process of protecting and securing copies of all the data stored in Oracle databases, so you can recover from outages or leverage the backups for development, testing, or analytics purposes. 
 
An Oracle backup and recovery solution will protect Oracle databases instances as well as Real Application Clusters (RAC), and enable database-level recovery anywhere, from any point in time.  A good Oracle database backup solution should help to cost-effectively meet your organization’s data retention, data privacy, and business requirements while making it quick and easy to access backups for recovery and secondary purposes.

Oracle databases contain some of the organization’s most critical data—from customer records to partner profiles and more. These production structured databases often feed other critical business applications and processes.

Because enterprises depend on their Oracle databases for a broad range of essential business functions, choosing the right backup and recovery solution is a critical decision. A cost-effective and reliable backup and recovery solution for Oracle database is critical because of the many data challenges enterprises face, such as:

• Data growth:  Growing volumes of data increase the complexity and cost of backing up and recovery Oracle databases. 
  Regulatory changes:  Ever-changing compliance mandates like HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI make Oracle database backups considerably more complex.
• Increasing costs:  The more data organizations have, the more the business has to pay for bandwidth, storage, and data management.   
  Slow backups and restores:  As data grows, backups and restores take longer to complete, and performance can degrade significantly.
• More complex environments:  Enterprise businesses store and access data across many locations, including on-prem, edge, and cloud.  This really complicates the management, security, and protection of data across all these environments. 

Organizations backup entire Oracle environments - from single instances to Real Application Clusters (RAC) across on-prem, edge, and cloud locations - using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN).

In addition, they can use Oracle backup solutions from third-party vendors with built-in RMAN integration to achieve application-consistent backup of all data. Backups can optionally be moved to another location or to the cloud for long-term retention and cost optimization. 
 
These backups become essential if something happens to your databases, or if you need to access the data for secondary purposes without impacting production.  

Teams want to be able to protect their Oracle environment on their own terms using:

• Configurable multinode and multichannel support for Oracle RAC
• Existing scripts and tools to manage infrastructure
• Automatic Oracle Wallet detection to simplify security