CHAPTER 6Backup and Recovery

Oracle Database 11g provides several useful and powerful features relating to the management of backup and recovery and provides several enhancements to RMAN, which is the main Oracle backup and recovery tool. The following are the key new features and enhancements in the backup and recovery area:

  • Data Recovery Advisor
  • Enhanced block media recovery
  • Tighter integration of RMAN and Data Guard
  • Enhanced archived redo log management
  • Virtual private recovery catalogs
  • Network-enabled database duplication without the use of prior backups
  • Long-term backups
  • Multisection backups
  • New validate command

In addition to these features, there are also new configuration options for backup compression, a new archived redo log failover ...

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