November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
630 pages
17h 38m
English
Content preview from Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers
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CHAPTER 6Backup and Recovery
Oracle Database 11g provides several useful and powerful features relating to the management of backup and recovery and provides several enhancements to RMAN, which is the main Oracle backup and recovery tool. The following are the key new features and enhancements in the backup and recovery area:
- Data Recovery Advisor
- Enhanced block media recovery
- Tighter integration of RMAN and Data Guard
- Enhanced archived redo log management
- Virtual private recovery catalogs
- Network-enabled database duplication without the use of prior backups
- Long-term backups
- Multisection backups
- New
validatecommand
In addition to these features, there are also new configuration options for backup compression, a new archived redo log failover ...