HA/DR Risk Assessment

Data Guard & Backup Risk Assessment

A Data Guard error or stale RMAN backup is not just a technical gap — it is an unquantified business risk. We find what your monitoring missed.

What We Assess

We evaluate your HA/DR posture across three layers — Active Data Guard configuration, RMAN backup currency, and DR readiness — with evidence from your actual environment data.

Active Data Guard

  • Active Data Guard deployment and licensing verification
  • Apply lag measurement and RPO gap analysis
  • Standby database license requirements
  • ORA error detection in Data Guard configuration
  • Broker configuration and failover readiness
  • Last switchover/failover date verification
  • Cold standby vs. active standby classification

RMAN Backup Assessment

  • Last successful backup date and currency
  • Backup type (full vs. incremental vs. archive only)
  • Restore test evidence — has recovery been verified?
  • Off-site backup confirmation
  • Backup retention period vs. policy
  • RMAN catalog configuration
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) achievability

DR Configuration Review

  • GoldenGate replication licensing
  • DR environment license counting rules
  • Business continuity architecture compliance
  • RTO and RPO documentation vs. actual configuration
  • Disaster recovery runbook existence and currency

The Risk Most Companies Do Not See

In a recent engagement, we found a client's RMAN backup had not completed successfully in 999 days. Their Data Guard standby had an active ORA-16629 error — meaning the standby was not synchronized with primary. Both issues existed simultaneously. Neither had triggered an alert. The organization believed their DR posture was healthy.

It was not. We found it. They fixed it before it became a crisis.

This is not unusual. Silent HA/DR failures are one of the most consistent findings across every Oracle environment we audit. Monitoring tools report on what they are configured to check — not on what they have not been told to look for.

When Did Your Backup Last Restore Successfully?

Book Your Free Oracle Risk Assessment HA/DR assessment is included as part of the full Oracle License & Compliance Audit. Fixed fee: $7,500. ← Back to The Full Audit