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CHAPTER2

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Architecture Tour

Now that you have a taste for how RMAN works, it’s time to start moving into the engine room of RMAN and see what really makes it tick. We want to take you through the RMAN landscape from the bottom up because we believe it’s not enough to just know, generally, how something as important as backup and recovery works. In this chapter we introduce you to the basic backup and recovery concepts of Oracle that RMAN is built around.

Before we do that, though, we want to take a moment to tell you what we really think this book is about and explain the approach we are taking. In previous ...

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