The recovery process (dmfrcp) handles online recovery from server and system failures. The logging system writes consistency points into the transaction log file to ensure that all databases are consistent up to that mark and to allow online recovery to take place when a problem is detected. While a transaction is being rolled back, users can continue working in the database.

The recovery process is a multi-threaded server process, like a normal DBMS server. However, the recovery process does not support user connections. The process must remain active whenever the installation is active.