Understanding Oracle Recovery Manager

Although, when one correctly, user-managed backups are a perfectly acceptable way to back up an Oracle database, it has probably become clear that these methods can easily introduce problems with human error. Using these methods, there is a possibility to omit needed files, back up the wrong files, or back them up in a wrong order, making recovery an extremely difficult proposition. In order to safely back up an enterprise-level database, Oracle felt that it was necessary to introduce an application that could be used as the standard tool. Today, that tool is called Oracle Recovery Manager.

Introducing RMAN

In Oracle Version 7, the Enterprise Backup Utility (EBU) was released as a part of the standard Oracle ...

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