The purpose of the ARC utility is to allow for the archiving, restoring, and copying of database objects. To maintain data security and integrity, backing up data is a must. And when you damage or lose or want to restore the previous version of data, restore is required to be performed.
The following figure shows the high-level architecture of backup and recovery, or the BAR system:
We will start with advanced SQL and then will cover some recipes on Teradata ARC.