Recovery techniques

Department of Information Technology 1Data base Technologies (ITB4201)
Recovery Techniques in DBMS
Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu
Professor
Department of IT
Hindustan Institute of Science & Technology

Action Plan
• What is Recovery ?
• Database Recovery techniques
• System log
• Working of Commit and Roll back
• Recovery techniques
• Backup techniques
• Quiz

What is Recovery ?
• In Database systems, like any other computer system, are
subject to failures but the data stored in it must be available as
and when required.
• When a database fails it must possess the facilities for fast
recovery.
• It must also have atomicity i.e. either transactions are
completed successfully and committed (the effect is recorded
permanently in the database) or the transaction should have
no effect on the database.

Database Recovery techniques
• There are both automatic and non-automatic ways for both,
backing up of data and recovery from any failure situations.
• The techniques used to recover the lost data due to system
crash, transaction errors, viruses, catastrophic failure, incorrect
commands execution etc. are database recovery techniques.
• So to prevent data loss recovery techniques based on deferred
update and immediate update or backing up data can be used.

System log
• Recovery techniques are heavily dependent upon the existence
of a special file known as a system log.
• It contains information about the start and end of each
transaction and any updates which occur in the transaction.
• The log keeps track of all transaction operations that affect the
values of database items.
• This information is needed to recover from transaction failure

System Logs Description
disk start_transaction(T) This log entry records that transaction T starts the execution
read_item(T, X) This log entry records that transaction T reads the value of database
item X
write_item(T, X,
old_value, new_value)
This log entry records that transaction T changes the value of the
database item X from old_value to new_value. The old value is
sometimes known as a before an image of X, and the new value is
known as an afterimage of X.
commit(T) This log entry records that transaction T has completed all accesses to
the database successfully and its effect can be committed (recorded
permanently) to the database
abort(T) This records that transaction T has been aborted
checkpoint Checkpoint is a mechanism where all the previous logs are removed
from the system and stored permanently in a storage disk. Checkpoint
declares a point before which the DBMS was in consistent state, and
all the transactions were committed.

Working of Commit and Roll back
• A transaction T reaches its commit point when all its operations that
access the database have been executed successfully i.e. the transaction
has reached the point at which it will not abort (terminate without
completing).
• Once committed, the transaction is permanently recorded in the database.
• Commitment always involves writing a commit entry to the log and writing
the log to disk.
• At the time of a system crash, item is searched back in the log for all
transactions T that have written a start_transaction(T) entry into the log
but have not written a commit(T) entry yet; these transactions may have
to be rolled back to undo their effect on the database during the recovery
process

Recovery techniques
• Undoing – If a transaction crashes, then the recovery manager
may undo transactions i.e. reverse the operations of a
transaction. This involves examining a transaction for the log
entry write_item(T, x, old_value, new_value) and setting the
value of item x in the database to old-value. There are two
major techniques for recovery from non-catastrophic
transaction failures: deferred updates and immediate updates.

Recovery techniques (cont..)
• Deferred update – This technique does not physically update the database on disk until a
transaction has reached its commit point. Before reaching commit, all transaction updates
are recorded in the local transaction workspace. If a transaction fails before reaching its
commit point, it will not have changed the database in any way so UNDO is not needed. It
may be necessary to REDO the effect of the operations that are recorded in the local
transaction workspace, because their effect may not yet have been written in the database.
Hence, a deferred update is also known as the No-undo/redo algorithm
• Immediate update – In the immediate update, the database may be updated by some
operations of a transaction before the transaction reaches its commit point. However, these
operations are recorded in a log on disk before they are applied to the database, making
recovery still possible. If a transaction fails to reach its commit point, the effect of its
operation must be undone i.e. the transaction must be rolled back hence we require both
undo and redo. This technique is known as undo/redo algorithm.

Recovery techniques (cont..)
• Caching/Buffering – In this one or more disk pages that include data items to be
updated are cached into main memory buffers and then updated in memory
before being written back to disk. A collection of in-memory buffers called the
DBMS cache is kept under control of DBMS for holding these buffers. A directory
is used to keep track of which database items are in the buffer. A dirty bit is
associated with each buffer, which is 0 if the buffer is not modified else 1 if
modified.
• Shadow paging – It provides atomicity and durability. A directory with n entries
is constructed, where the ith entry points to the ith database page on the link.
When a transaction began executing the current directory is copied into a
shadow directory. When a page is to be modified, a shadow page is allocated in
which changes are made and when it is ready to become durable, all pages that
refer to original are updated to refer new replacement page.

Backup techniques
• Full database backup – In this full database including data and database, Meta
information needed to restore the whole database, including full-text catalogs
are backed up in a predefined time series.
• Differential backup – It stores only the data changes that have occurred since
last full database backup. When same data has changed many times since last
full database backup, a differential backup stores the most recent version of
changed data. For this first, we need to restore a full database backup.
• Transaction log backup – In this, all events that have occurred in the database,
like a record of every single statement executed is backed up. It is the backup of
transaction log entries and contains all transaction that had happened to the
database. Through this, the database can be recovered to a specific point in
time. It is even possible to perform a backup from a transaction log if the data
files are destroyed and not even a single committed transaction is lost.

Test Yourself
1. Which of the following is not a recovery technique?
A. Deferred update
B. Immediate update
C. Two-phase commit
D. Recovery management
2. Checkpoints are a part of
A. Recovery measures
B. Security measures
C. Concurrency measures
D. Authorization measures
3. .......... is an alternative of log based recovery.
A. Disk recovery
B. Shadow paging
C. Dish shadowing
D. Crash recovery
4. In the ___________ scheme, a transaction that wants to update the database first creates a complete copy of the database.
A. Shadow copy
B. Shadow Paging
C. Update log records
D. All of the mentioned
5. If a transaction does not modify the database until it has committed, it is said to use the ___________ technique.
A. Deferred-modification
B. Late-modification
C. Immediate-modification
D. Undo

1. Which of the following is not a recovery technique?
A. Deferred update
B. Immediate update
C. Two-phase commit
D. Recovery management
2. Checkpoints are a part of
A. Recovery measures
B. Security measures
C. Concurrency measures
D. Authorization measures
3. .......... is an alternative of log based recovery.
A. Disk recovery
B. Shadow paging
C. Dish shadowing
D. Crash recovery
4. In the ___________ scheme, a transaction that wants to update the database first creates a complete copy of the database.
A. Shadow copy
B. Shadow Paging
C. Update log records
D. All of the mentioned
5. If a transaction does not modify the database until it has committed, it is said to use the ___________ technique.
A. Deferred-modification
B. Late-modification
C. Immediate-modification
D. Undo
Answers

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