See Policies for Full Stack Disaster Recovery and Policies for Oracle Autonomous Database for the required policies and their usage with Full Stack Disaster Recovery.

If the disaster recovery topology contains any database related to the Oracle Autonomous Container Database, perform the following steps to prepare the databases for Full Stack Disaster Recovery:

1. Configure an Autonomous Data Guard association for the primary database. See Manage Autonomous Data Guard Configuration for instructions.
2. Add the Autonomous Data Guard peer (standby database) in the standby region that you intend to use for disaster recovery.

Enable Full Stack Disaster Recovery by adding an Autonomous Container Database instance to a Disaster Recovery Protection Group.

For instructions, see Add an Autonomous Container Database to a Disaster Recovery Protection Group.

After you create a Disaster Recovery Protection Group that includes an Autonomous Container Database, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console shows that Full Stack Disaster Recovery is enabled.

After you enable Full Stack Disaster Recovery, when you perform a switchover or failover you have the option to use Full Stack Disaster Recovery.

For a switchover or failover you must initiate the operation from a Standby database. You have several options to access a Standby database:

• Select the region in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console and then access the Standby database.
• On the Primary database you can access a standby database from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. To access a standby database, from the Autonomous Database details page select Disaster recovery under Resources and click a link for a standby database in the Peer Autonomous Database column.

To perform a switchover or a failover:

1. Access the standby database and from the Autonomous Database details page. Under Disaster recovery click Switchover (or Failover when the Primary is not available) in the Role field.

   As an alternative, to initiate a switchover you can select More actions and Switchover (or Failover when the Primary is not available).

   This shows the Confirm switchover to peer dialog.

2. Select an option and confirm the operation.
   1. Select Switchover stack with Full Stack Disaster Recovery.
   2. In the Select Disaster Recovery Protection Group field, select a value.
   3. Click Goto DR protection group.

This brings you to the Disaster Recovery DR protection group details page. From this page you can execute Full Stack Disaster recovery plans for the entire application stack that includes this Autonomous Database. See Manage Disaster Recovery Plan Executions for more information.