13.3. DBA Backup and Recovery Methods
The DBA has a number of additional tools for performing backup and recovery, with capabilities for working at a much larger scale than the methods previously discussed. Instead of a couple of tables being dropped by a user, the DBA may need to handle a disk drive failure, resulting in the loss of an entire tablespace.
In addition to using Export and Import to back up database objects, the DBA can perform cold backups or hot backups for an entire tablespace or an entire database. Other tools available to the DBA include Log Miner and RMAN.
13.3.1. Export and Import for DBAs
Earlier in this chapter, you learned about the Export (EXP) and Import (IMP) utilities that a user can use to save and restore database ...
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