Patent ID: 7437609

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting an operating database to replace a failed database during a failover operation and defining a point of recoverability in the operating database; selecting a log file to be applied to the operating database and tagging the selected log file with a recovery identifier corresponding to the point of recoverability to bind the selected log file to the selected operating database for the failover operation; applying data records from the selected log file to the operating database after verifying that a presence of the recovery identifier in the selected log file is consistent with a recovery identifier in the operating database; selecting another log file to be applied to the selected operating database; applying data records from the another log file if the another log file is tagged with the recovery identifier that is consistent with the recovery identifier in the selected operating database; and tagging the another log file with the recovery identifier from the selected operating database after the data records from the another log file are applied to the selected operating database, if the another log file did not have the recovery identifier prior to recovery operations.