Disaster Recovery & HA

Disaster recovery on OCI that actually meets your RTO.

A recovery plan you have never tested is a hope, not a plan. We design high availability and disaster recovery on OCI to real recovery targets, then prove it with a tested failover.

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Overview

The short version.

High availability keeps a workload running when one component fails. Disaster recovery brings it back when a whole region or site is lost. Most estates confuse the two, pay for one while believing they have the other, and find out the gap only during an incident.

We separate the two clearly, design each to a stated recovery time and recovery point objective, and build the architecture across OCI availability domains, fault domains, and regions to match. Then we run a real failover test so the numbers on the plan are numbers you have seen happen.

Capabilities

What we do here.

HA within a region

Multi availability domain and fault domain design so a single failure does not take the workload down.

Cross region DR

Replication and standby environments in a second region with a defined, tested failover.

Database DR

Data Guard and Autonomous Database cross region copies tuned to your recovery point target.

Backup strategy

Layered backups that protect against deletion and corruption, not just hardware loss.

Runbooks

Step by step failover and failback runbooks your team can execute under pressure.

Failover testing

A real, witnessed failover that proves the RTO and RPO before you ever need them.

Comparison

How the options compare.

DR patterns trade cost against recovery speed. The right one depends on how much downtime and data loss the workload can tolerate.

PatternTypical RTOCost
Backup and restoreHours to a dayLowest, you pay for storage only
Pilot lightTens of minutesLow, core systems warm, rest scaled up on failover
Warm standbyMinutesHigher, a scaled down copy runs continuously
Active activeNear zeroHighest, full capacity in two regions
The right recovery target is a business decision. Our job is to build to it and prove the number is real.
Method

How we approach it.

  • Agree RTO and RPO per workload with the people who own the risk.
  • Choose the DR pattern that meets the target at the lowest sensible cost.
  • Build the standby architecture across availability domains and regions.
  • Write runbooks that a tired engineer can follow at 3am.
  • Run a witnessed failover, measure the result, and close any gap.
40%
average OCI spend reduction after optimization
500+
OCI engagements delivered
24/7/365
managed monitoring and support
20+
years combined Oracle experience
Related

Where this connects.

Solution

Autonomous Database

Cross region database copies that anchor a recovery plan.

See ADB
Workload

Oracle Database on OCI

Data Guard and standby design for Oracle databases.

See databases
Case study

Healthcare DR on OCI

Cross region DR delivering a tested 15 minute RTO.

Read the result

Put this to work on your estate.

Book an assessment and we will show you what good looks like for your workloads, in writing, with a clear price.