CHAPTER 22

image

RMAN in an Oracle Data Guard Environment

You can use RMAN to simplify the administration of your Oracle Data Guard setup. You can employ all the standard RMAN backup and recovery strategies in a Data Guard environment. RMAN lets you perform backups on the primary database and enables quick recovery from the loss of data files, control files, or even the entire database.

It’s important to understand that RMAN commands work similarly across both the primary and the standby database. You can back up a tablespace, for example, on a primary database and restore and recover that tablespace in a standby database and vice versa. The recovery ...

Get RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 12c: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.