RMAN for multitenant container databases

Oracle Database 12c has introduced the feature of creating multitenant container and pluggable databases. Now, it's possible to make a database a multitenant container database (CDB) with one or more user-created pluggable databases (PDB). If not, you can opt for making a non-container database as well. A non-container database is actually the same database type which exists in the previous versions such as 11g. RMAN offers complete support for these new database types.

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For more about multitenant CDB and PDB, refer to Chapter 3, What's New in 12c.

To support backup and recovery tasks for the new multitenant database type, some enhancements have been made to RMAN's existing commands. In the following sections, we will see how we can perform RMAN backups for the multitenant CDBs and PDBs. It's important to note that the concept of backups, their format, and types, will remain the same even for the new database type. We will now see how these concepts...