Planning Space Usage and Location for the Fast Recovery Area

You should place the fast recovery area on a separate disk from the working set of database files. Otherwise, the disk becomes a single point of failure for your database.

The amount of disk space to allocate for the fast recovery area depends on the size and activity levels of your database, which determine the size of your data files and online redo log files in addition to your recovery objectives. Your objectives dictate what kinds of backups you use, when you make them, and how long to keep them.

This section contains the following topics:

• About the Backup Retention Policy and the Fast Recovery Area

• About the Fast Recovery Area Size