CHAPTER 10Backup and Recovery for MAA Environments

So far, we’ve focused on creating a highly available database using Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), Oracle Data Guard, and internal database features. These technologies are all critical components of Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) that are typically researched, proofed, and rolled out by DBAs with specific high availability requirements.

This chapter will take a different track. Every DBA performs backups (at least they should), and most seasoned DBAs have spent time perfecting their backup scripts to be efficient while still protecting the critical data within the database from media failures, corruption, user errors, and other problems. Traditionally, the ...

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