Disaster recovery planning is one of the most crucial component for a business but that is often ignored or inadequately planned. Business organizations must have a well-structured plan and document process for disaster recovery and business continuity, before a catastrophe occurs. The IT infrastructure disasters can be short term or long lasting failure resulting in loss of application and data, but when an organization is well planned with standby infrastructure and recover plan in place, it can quickly get the business on track. This paper will clearly outline the disaster recovery planning best practices and technical process to recover the oracle applications with zero data loss. This paper aims to provide best practices for effective disaster management planning and technical configurations to achieve faster application recovery.

Keywords : Disaster Recovery; High Availability, Fusion middleware DR, DR planning