Oracle9i Recovery Manager User's Guide Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A90135-01 |
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This guide includes the conceptual and task-oriented information you need to perform backup and recovery procedures using the Recovery Manager utility.
This preface contains these topics:
Oracle9i Recovery Manager User's Guide is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:
To use this document, you need to know the following:
This document contains:
This section gives you basic information necessary to use Recovery Manager (RMAN).
This chapter gives a short explanation of the purpose and functionality of the RMAN utility.
This chapter describes how to start RMAN and connect to target, catalog, and auxiliary databases.
This chapter gives a simple introduction to using basic RMAN features.
This section gives a detailed conceptual account of RMAN functionality.
This chapter describes the basic components of the RMAN environment and the nature of the RMAN command interface.
This chapter describes RMAN channels, both manual and automatic, as well as the uses of the BACKUP
and COPY
commands.
This chapter describes the uses of the RESTORE
, RECOVER
, and DUPLICATE
commands.
This chapter describes the various commands used to generate reports, perform maintenance on backups, and store files and scripts in the recovery catalog.
This chapter describes how to set up and configure the RMAN environment.
This section describes how to perform backup and recovery operations.
This chapter describes how to use the BACKUP
and COPY
commands.
This chapter describes how to use the RESTORE
and RECOVER
commands.
This chapter describes how to recover one or more tablespaces to a noncurrent time without affecting the rest of the database.
This chapter describes how to use DUPLICATE
to create a copy of the target database.
This chapter describes how to use DUPLICATE
to create a standby database.
This chapter gives tips for improving RMAN backup and restore performance.
This chapter gives tips for diagnosing and responding to RMAN problems.
This section describes how to create the RMAN repository, query the RMAN repository, and maintain the backups recorded in the repository.
This chapter describes how to create and manage a recovery catalog, as well as how to run RMAN without using a recovery catalog.
This chapter describes how to access the information stored in the repository.
This chapter describes how to use maintenance commands such as CHANGE
, CROSSCHECK
, and DELETE
to operate on backups and copies.
For more information, see these Oracle resources:
http://www.oracle.com/database/recovery
You can access information about the Backup Solutions Program at
http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/features/recovery/index.html?backupsp.html
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