In a Nutshell

We have discussed the concepts and inner workings of Oracle RAC recovery operations. Oracle RAC backup and recovery processes are the same as single-instance backup and recovery, except for the thread merging and two-pass recovery concepts. For the exact commands and syntaxes, refer to Oracle 11g Recovery Manager Reference.

Oracle RAC introduced two-pass recovery to optimize media recovery. Fast reconfiguration helps make instance recovery efficient by distributing the resources from failed nodes to surviving nodes. This also helps to reduce the reconfiguration times while members are joining or leaving the clusters.

We also discussed the backup and recovery operations of the two key components of the clusterware: Oracle Clusterware ...

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