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Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

You're reading from   Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide A comprehensive guide for every DBA to learn recovery and backup solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782171201
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Basics of Backup and Recovery 2. NOLOGGING Operations FREE CHAPTER 3. What is New in 12c 4. User-managed Backup and Recovery 5. Understanding RMAN and Simple Backups 6. Configuring and Recovering with RMAN 7. RMAN Reporting and Catalog Management 8. RMAN Troubleshooting and Tuning 9. Understanding Data Pump 10. Advanced Data Pump 11. OEM12c and SQL Developer Scenarios and Examples – A Hands-on Lab Index

Restore points


A restore point is a user-defined name for a point-in-time that allows you to rewind your data back in time to solve any problem caused by user errors or data corruption to a specific point-in-time (in this case, a restore point previously created). Oracle has two types of restore points:

  • Normal Restore Point: Allows the creation of a restore point to a specific SCN, current time, or any point-in-time (that already passed). This type of restore point ages out the control file after it is beyond the point of recoverability.

  • Guaranteed Restored Point: This type of restore point ensures that flashback can be used to rewind the database to the time of the restore point. It requires the database to have an FRA, be in ARCHIVELOG mode, and the compatibility mode should be 10.2 or greater.

We can easily see all restore points created in our database and create a new one if necessary by navigating in the database console menu to Availability] | Backup & Recovery | Restore Points...

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