CHAPTER 13 Using Recovery Manager (RMAN)
In Chapter 12, we discussed a number of different ways in which we can back up our data and protect the database from accidental, inadvertent, or deliberate corruption. Physical backups of the database ensure that no committed transaction is lost, and we can restore the database from any previous backup to the current point in time or any point in between; logical backups allow the DBA or a user to capture the contents of individual database objects at a particular point in time, providing an alternative recovery option when a complete database-restoration operation would have too big an impact on the rest of the database.
Oracle’s Recovery Manager (RMAN) takes backup and recovery to a new level of protection ...
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