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 need to 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 are running the database

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/support/contact.html or visit http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/support.html if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documentation

For more information, 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/technology/deploy/availability

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.

Oracle error message documentation is only available in HTML. If you only have access to the Oracle Documentation CD, then you can browse the error messages by range. Once you find the specific range, use your browser's "find in page" feature to locate the specific message. When connected to the Internet, you can search for a specific error message using the error message search feature of the Oracle online documentation.

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.