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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

RMAN architecture


There are a few key entities for RMAN to start with. Some of them are mandatory and the rest are optional. We will list these components along with whether they are optional or mandatory in the following list:

  • Target database (mandatory)

  • Target Control File (mandatory)

  • Channels (mandatory)

  • Recovery Catalog (optional)

  • Oracle Secure Backup (optional)

  • Media Management Library (optional)

  • Auxiliary database (optional)

  • Cloud Control 12c (optional)

Putting them all in the form of a diagram would appear as shown in the following figure:

Now, let's take a closer look at each one of the components.

Target database

This is the database for which RMAN is supposed to perform all the tasks of the backup and if needed, recovery as well. Since RMAN binary is just an interface, by using a valid network service, you can make it work for all the databases of your company. The database to which RMAN would be connected and working for would be termed as the target database.

Target Control File

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