C H A P T E R 16
User-Managed Backup and Recovery
All DBAs should know how to back up databases. Even more critical, you must be able to restore and recover a database. When there is a media failure, everybody looks to the DBA to successfully perform a restore and recovery. You can use two very different Oracle approaches for backup and recovery (B&R):
- The user-managed approach
- The Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) approach
User-managed backups are called that because you manually perform all steps associated with the backup and/or recovery. There are two types of user-managed backups: cold backups and hot backups. Cold backups are sometimes ...
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