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<p>
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An important part of DB's transactional guarantees is durability.
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<span class="emphasis"><em>Durability</em></span> means that once a
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transaction has been committed, the database modifications performed
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under its protection will not be lost due to system failure.
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In order to provide the transactional durability guarantee,
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DB uses a write-ahead logging system. Every operation performed on
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your databases is described in a log before it is performed on
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your databases. This is done in order to ensure that an operation can be
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recovered in the event of an untimely application
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or system failure.
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Beyond logging, another important aspect of durability is
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recoverability. That is, backup and restore. </span>
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DB supports a normal recovery that runs against a subset of
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your log files. This is a routine procedure used whenever your
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environment is first opened upon application startup, and it is intended to
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ensure that your database is in a consistent state. DB also
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supports archival backup and recovery in the case of
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catastrophic failure, such as the loss of a physical disk
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drive.
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This book describes several different backup procedures
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you can use to protect your on-disk data. These procedures
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range from simple offline backup strategies to hot failovers. Hot failovers
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provide not only a backup mechanism, but
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also a way to recover from a fatal hardware failure.
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This book also describes the recovery procedures you should use
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for each of the backup strategies that you might employ.
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For a detailed description of backup and restore procedures, see
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<a class="xref" href="filemanagement.html" title="Chapter 5. Managing DB Files">Managing DB Files</a>.
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<a accesskey="u" href="introduction.html">Up</a>
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<td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Multi-threaded
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<span>and Multi-process</span>
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Applications </td>
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