Preface

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Related Documentation

Audience

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

• Back up, restore, and recover Oracle AI Databases

• Perform maintenance on backups of database files

• Transfer data between a file system and Oracle Automatic Storage Management or between platforms when installing Oracle AI Database

To use this document, you must know the following:

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

• The operating system environment under which you run the Oracle AI Database.

Related Documentation

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

• Oracle AI Database Backup and Recovery Reference

• Oracle AI Database Utilities

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management 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 the Oracle AI Database. Refer to Oracle AI Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.