CHAPTER 10Backup and Recovery

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk youshould avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

—Denis Waitley

Backup and recovery is one of the most fundamental responsibilities of any database administrator (DBA) and/or system administrator (SA). In the traditional Oracle Database realm, backups are as old as the earth and sky. And while the necessity of taking backups has been with us from the beginning—and there have been huge evolutionary strides made by Oracle in the tools provided—the topic is still large and intimidating to new users of Oracle’s products. The documentation set for the current version on the database includes four documents containing over 800 pages of material— and ...

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