Database Recovery Techniques

Unit - V
 Introduction

• Database recovery from failures - system

crashes and transaction errors.
• Recovery techniques are often intertwined
with the concurrency control mechanisms.
 Recovery Concepts
• Recovery from transaction failures - database
is restored to the most recent consistent state
just before the time of failure.
• Procedure – system must keep information
about the changes that were applied to data
items by the various transactions.
• This information is in the system log
Typical Strategy for Recovery