Administrators may seek assistance to clean up and reorganize after a database becomes lost or corrupt. Data recovery is further complicated when databases are hosted inside virtual machines, as the interconnections are quite dissimilar to when they reside inside the actual data center.
Data loss instances are most often occur due to human error, but as any administrator knows, they can include anything from hardware failures to internal database corruptions and deleted database entries.
Knowing that data loss scenarios can wreck havoc on business continuity, it is imperative to find a service provider with the recovery toolset designed to retrieve the row data contained within missing or damaged database files.
Kroll Ontrack supports most data types and Oracle databases currently in use today, including versions 8, 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g running on both x86 and Solaris platforms. This provides users with a recovery solution that can match their specific hardware configurations. The data recovery specialists at Kroll Ontrack can also recover Oracle data that is on ASM disk groups, including cases where ASM volume structures are overwritten or have damage. Using proprietary tools and procedures, engineers are able to search the free space to find all of the raw Oracle data, rebuild the original database files and then extract the row data, allowing the customer to import the recovered data into a new database.
Despite advances in server hardware and storage, data loss is still a reality on any type of system. With Ontrack Data Recovery repair and recovery tools for Linux file systems including EXT3, EXT4, XFS, Reiser, JFS and GFS, Kroll Ontrack is able to handle data loss incidents on systems running Oracle Linux.
Virtualization adds an extra layer of complexity to a host system and when data loss occurs, Kroll Ontrack has the right tools to respond and can support file formats including VHD, VDI and VMDK used by Oracle VM and Oracle VirtualBox.