Backup and recovery is one of the most complicated areas of database management. Having the right resources to do a recovery is critical, and unfortunately in many cases, not addressed until after data is already lost.
Database backup and recovery comes in many flavors, from recovering from a dropped object to bouncing back from a major disaster, and everything in between. Recoveries done manually can be error prone, time consuming and resource intensive. Database Administrators can be faced with many challenges for example:
- Can a transaction be reversed or does the entire database have to be recovered?
- How can you determine which objects have been impacted?
- Do you have the necessary resources to recover to a point in time?
- Are you prepared for a disaster? Can you recover your subsystem? How much data are you willing to lose?
These solutions are the insurance you need to lessen the impact data loss can have on your business.