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RMAN is a program that helps to manage backing up,
restoring and
recovering databases, or more accurately their
datafiles.
Features
While backing up, restoring and recovering are possible with user managed backup recovery, RMAN also has some additional features:
Starting RMAN
RMAN is located under
ORACLE_HOME/bin
TerminologyTarget database
In RMAN's terminology, the database on which it is operated (that is backed up, restored or recovered) is called the target database. One recovery catalog can manage multiple target databases.
Channel
A channel is a connection (session) from RMAN to a target database. These connections, or channels, are used to actually perform the desired operations.
Physical standby databases
RMAN can use physical standby databases to make backups. This saves valuable
resources on the primary database.
Links
Scripts: RMAN backup history (char based) and
RMAN backup history (html based).
Thanks
Thanks to Peter Munro who pointed out two errors on this page.
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