Introduction

Backup and recovery abilities are arguably the most critical skills required of a database administrator. Recovery Manager (RMAN) is Oracle’s standard backup and recovery tool; every Oracle DBA should be familiar with utilizing RMAN. This book introduces you to RMAN; it starts with the very basics of how to set up and configure RMAN, and works through to more advanced topics, such as various restore and recovery scenarios.

What This Book Covers

Chapter 1 covers the essentials of your environment setup and how to connect to RMAN. Chapter 2 details the files that are part of backup and recovery operations (control files, online redo logs, archive redo logs, and data files).

User-managed backups are the focus of Chapter 3. User-managed ...

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