Abstract: Techniques for fast database recovery in a multi-volume database environment via transactional awareness are described. In the event of a failure associated with a first volume storing database page data, the first volume can be restored to a point in time and transactional metadata from a second volume storing logical change data can be obtained for a limited number of transactions occurring at/after that point in time, as opposed to analyzing extremely large change log files. These transactions can be checked to ensure that they have all been persisted, and if not, change data for those transactions can be obtained from the second volume and used to replay these transactions on the restored first volume.