Preface

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documentation

• Relocated Documentation

• Conventions

Audience

Backup and Recovery User's Guide is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases

• Perform maintenance on backups of database files

• Transfer data between a file system and ASM or between platforms when installing Oracle Database

To use this document, you must know the following:

• Relational database concepts and basic database administration as described in Oracle Database Concepts and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• The operating system environment under which you run the database

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documentation

For more information about backup and recovery, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Reference

• Oracle Database Utilities

• Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide

You can access information about the Backup Solutions Program (BSP) at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/bsp-088814.html

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle Database. Refer to Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

Relocated Documentation

The following chapters have been relocated:

• Chapter 24: "Creating Transportable Tablespace Sets." You can reference this material in Oracle Database Administrator's Guide.

• Chapter 26: "Performing ASM Data Migration." This information is now included in the Database Storage Administrator's Guide.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.