December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
19h 35m
English
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CHAPTER 11Backup and Recovery Options
Oracle provides a variety of backup procedures and options that help protect an Oracle database. If they are properly implemented, these options will allow you to effectively back up your databases and recover them easily and efficiently.
Oracle's backup capabilities include logical and physical backups, both of which have a number of options available. This chapter will not detail every possible option and recovery scenario; rather, I will focus on using the best options in the most effective manner possible. You will see how to best integrate the available backup procedures with each other and with the operating system backups. You will also see details on the options for Data Pump Export and Import, which ...