Chapter 26
Tips and Scripts for Implementing RMAN
Guang Sheng Wan
Backup and recovery are among the most important tasks performed by database administrators (DBAs). Sometimes, these tasks can be time-consuming and erroneous. It is critical for the DBA to set up a proper backup and recovery strategy and put it in place.
Before Oracle8, the Oracle DBA normally used customer-written scripts, Oracle7’s Enterprise Backup Utility, or third-party tools to perform the physical Oracle database backup and restore process. Oracle8’s Recovery Manager (RMAN) comes with Oracle8 versions and provides a better solution for an Oracle8 database’s backup and recovery.
RMAN manages the processes of creating backups of database files and restoring or recovering ...
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