Summary
In this chapter, we learned some concepts about how to perform user-managed backups and recoveries and how to ensure that a user-managed backup of a datafile is valid before executing a restore process. I would like to finish this chapter by saying that it is very important to periodically verify your backups to ensure that they can always be used for an unexpected recovery. Now is the time to understand RMAN and learn how to perform simple backups using this tool, an important and fascinating subject which is the topic of our next chapter.
