Administrator's Guide Introduction to Recovery Appliance Traditional Database Backup Techniques Traditional Database Backup Techniques All production Oracle databases require data protection. Oracle provides RMAN as its preferred backup solution. Most enterprises have adopted one or more of the database backup strategies described in this section: Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backups Incremental Backups and RECOVER COPY Full Backups to a Third-Party Deduplicating Appliance Third-Party Storage Snapshots