Oracle Backup Basics
Oracle backups can be taken at the physical level (hot or cold) or at the logical level. A physical backup is composed of the following:
Datafiles
Controlfiles
Archived redo log files (if the database is in ARCHIVELOG mode)
Parameter files (init.ora and SPFILE)
A physical backup is performed by taking an operating system copy ...
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