Recovery Features

• recovery from system, software, or hardware failure

• automatic database instance recovery at database start up

• recovery of individual offline tablespaces or files while the rest of a database is operational

• time-based and change-based recovery operations to recover to a transaction-consistent state specified by the database administrator

• increased control over recovery time in the event of system failure

• the ability to apply redo log entries in parallel to reduce the amount of time for recovery

• Export and Import utilities for archiving and restoring data in a logical data format, rather than a physical file backup