CHAPTER21
Media Management Considerations
The RMAN utility in Oracle Database 12c focuses on the best way to leverage disk backups as the media recovery solution. With the price of disks falling, massive storage area networks (SANs) have found a permanent place in many datacenters. With the business evolving toward cheaper and larger disks, upgrades in RMAN functionality (such as the Fast Recovery Area) were implemented to make best use of the available storage space.
It’s a logical progression for the RMAN backup utility, and, of course, writing to disk is something that the Oracle Database is extremely good at. Therefore, any time it gets to ...
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