Druva’s Automated Block-Level Recovery: A Game Changer in the World of Database Recovery

Maintaining data integrity and minimizing downtime are paramount for organizations. Oracle’s Block Media Recovery (BMR) feature is an advanced solution that allows Database Administrators (DBAs) to repair corrupted data blocks without restoring the entire database. This ensures a quick and efficient recovery process, enabling organizations to keep their operations running smoothly without any hiccups.

Why Block Media Recovery (BMR)?

While complete database file corruption is rare in Oracle database environments, block-level corruption can be common in high-transaction, heavily loaded databases. This type of corruption may partially impact database files, leading to unexpected behavior in certain transactions. In such cases, a full database recovery can be overkill, leading to potential downtime and resource usage.

Rather than performing a full database recovery, restoring only the target corrupted blocks via BMR saves valuable time and resources. BMR ensures business continuity by minimizing the impact on database operations.

Druva’s Automated Block-Level Recovery (BLR) Solution

Druva’s Block-Level Recovery(BLR)  solution takes BMR to the next level by automating the process of recovering only the corrupted blocks. Here’s how it works:
In the event of data block corruption, you can initiate restoration of only the corrupted data blocks from the latest full, differential, or log backups by simply selecting the latest point-in-time (PIT) snapshot. This eliminates the need for full database recovery, ensuring a faster recovery and reducing the downtime significantly.

Key Features of Druva’s BLR Solution

Here’s how Druva’s solution makes BMR (Block Media Recovery) even more powerful:

1. Fully automated process: A completely automated process with zero manual intervention, making it easier for organizations to manage and perform recoveries of corrupted data blocks.
2. Eliminates the need for full database recovery: Restoration of only the affected data blocks eliminates the hassle of restoring the complete database, saving time and resources.
3. Faster recovery with zero downtime: Targeted recovery of corrupted data blocks leads to faster restoration processes. This ensures the database remains operational, allowing ongoing transactions and operations to continue without interruption.
4. Clear visibility of the entire process: Druva provides detailed progress logs during the recovery process, offering DBAs clear insights into which data files are corrupted and how the recovery is progressing.

Why choose Druva for BMR?

In today’s competitive and fast-paced environments, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity is extremely critical. Druva’s BLR solution provides an automated, efficient, and effective way to recover only the corrupted data blocks without the need for a time-consuming full database restore.

This functionality not only saves time but also guarantees seamless business continuity by offering zero downtime. It’s the perfect balance of speed and efficiency.

Conclusion: A super-efficient approach for data recovery

Druva’s Block-Level Recovery is a game-changer for organizations seeking a more efficient way to manage data corruption. Through the automated recovery of only corrupted blocks, this solution has revolutionized the data recovery process with its zero downtime offering.

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