| Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14191-01 |
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| Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14191-01 |
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This preface contains these topics:
Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:
Back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases
Perform maintenance on backups of database files
To use this document, you need to know the following:
Relational database concepts and basic database administration as described in Oracle Database Concepts and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
Basic backup and recovery concepts and strategies as described in Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics
The operating system environment under which you are running the database
This document contains:
Part I, "Recovery Manager Advanced Architecture and Concepts"
This section offers detailed conceptual information about backup and recovery in general and especially with Recovery Manager (RMAN).
Chapter 1, "Recovery Manager Architecture"
This chapter describes the application architecture of the RMAN environment.
Chapter 2, "RMAN Backups Concepts"
This chapter describes advanced conceptual information about RMAN backups.
Chapter 3, "RMAN Recovery Concepts"
This chapter describes concepts involved in RMAN restore, recovery, and database duplication.
Part II, "Advanced RMAN Backup and Recovery Topics"
This section describes advanced procedures for using RMAN in database backup and recovery.
Chapter 4, "Connecting to Databases with RMAN"
This chapter gives detailed information for how to connect to databases with RMAN, including advanced uses such as connecting to auxiliary databases.
Chapter 5, "Configuring the RMAN Environment: Advanced Topics"
This chapter describes advanced configuration of RMAN, such as setting up media managers and configuration changes that can enhance performance.
Chapter 6, "Making Backups with RMAN: Advanced Topics"
This chapter describes advanced scenarios and techniques for backing up databases with RMAN.
Chapter 7, "Advanced RMAN Recovery Techniques"
This chapter includes advanced scenarios and techniques using the RESTORE and RECOVER commands.
Chapter 8, "RMAN Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery (TSPITR)"
This chapter describes how to recover one or more tablespaces to a past point in time with RMAN while the rest of the database remains available.
Chapter 9, "RMAN Backup and Repository Maintenance"
This chapter describes maintenance tasks for keeping the RMAN repository up to date.
Chapter 10, "Managing the Recovery Catalog"
This chapter describes how to create and manage a recovery catalog.
Chapter 11, "Tuning Backup and Recovery"
This chapter describes techniques for improving database backup, restore and recovery performance.
Chapter 12, "Recovery Manager Troubleshooting"
This chapter gives tips for diagnosing and responding to problems during RMAN backup and recovery operations.
Part III, "Using RMAN for Database Transport, Duplication and Migration"
This part of the book describes how to use RMAN for duplicating or transporting databases between platforms and between ASM and non-ASM storage.
Chapter 13, "Creating and Updating Duplicate Databases with RMAN"
This chapter describes how to use DUPLICATE to create a copy of the target database.
Chapter 14, "Creating Transportable Tablespace Sets from Backup with RMAN"
This chapter describes how to use RMAN for online tablespace transport.
Chapter 15, "RMAN Cross-Platform Transportable Databases and Tablespaces"
This chapter describes how to use RMAN to convert and transport databases across platforms.
Chapter 16, "Migrating Databases To and From ASM with Recovery Manager"
This chapter describes how to use RMAN to move databases into and out of Automatic Storage Management disk groups.
Part IV, "Performing User-Managed Backup and Recovery"
This part of the book describes performing backup and recovery of databases without using Recovery Manager.
Chapter 17, "Making User-Managed Backups"
This chapter describes how to use operating system commands to back up database files and archived redo logs.
Chapter 18, "Performing User-Managed Database Flashback and Recovery"
This chapter describes how to use the SQL*Plus FLASHBACK DATABASE and RECOVER commands.
Chapter 19, "Advanced User-Managed Recovery Scenarios"
This chapter describes advanced scenarios involving user-managed restore and recovery.
Chapter 20, "Performing User-Managed TSPITR"
This chapter describes how to perform user-managed TSPITR.
Chapter 21, "Troubleshooting User-Managed Media Recovery"
This chapter describes how to diagnose and solve problems in user-managed media recovery.
For more information, see these Oracle resources:
You can access information about the Backup Solutions Program at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability
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This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:
Conventions in Text
We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.
| Convention | Meaning | Example |
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| Bold | Bold typeface indicates terms that are defined in the text or terms that appear in a glossary, or both. | When you specify this clause, you create an index-organized table. |
| Italics | Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis. | Oracle Database Concepts
Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk. |
UPPERCASE monospace (fixed-width) font |
Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles. | You can specify this clause only for a NUMBER column.
You can back up the database by using the Query the Use the |
lowercase monospace (fixed-width) font |
Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values.
Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown. |
Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus.
The password is specified in the Back up the datafiles and control files in the The Set the Connect as The |
lowercase italic monospace (fixed-width) font |
Lowercase italic monospace font represents placeholders or variables. | You can specify the parallel_clause.
Run |
Conventions in Code Examples
Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:
SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';
The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.
| Convention | Meaning | Example |
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[ ] |
Brackets enclose one or more optional items. Do not enter the brackets. |
DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ]) |
{ }
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Braces enclose two or more items, one of which is required. Do not enter the braces. |
{ENABLE | DISABLE}
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A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter one of the options. Do not enter the vertical bar. |
{ENABLE | DISABLE}
[COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]
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... |
Horizontal ellipsis points indicate either:
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CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery; SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees; |
. . . |
Vertical ellipsis points indicate that we have omitted several lines of code not directly related to the example. |
SQL> SELECT NAME FROM V$DATAFILE; NAME ------------------------------------ /fsl/dbs/tbs_01.dbf /fs1/dbs/tbs_02.dbf . . . /fsl/dbs/tbs_09.dbf 9 rows selected. |
| Other notation | You must enter symbols other than brackets, braces, vertical bars, and ellipsis points as shown. |
acctbal NUMBER(11,2); acct CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3; |
Italics
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Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values. |
CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password DB_NAME = database_name |
UPPERCASE |
Uppercase typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. We show these terms in uppercase in order to distinguish them from terms you define. Unless terms appear in brackets, enter them in the order and with the spelling shown. However, because these terms are not case sensitive, you can enter them in lowercase. |
SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES; DROP TABLE hr.employees; |
lowercase |
Lowercase typeface indicates programmatic elements that you supply. For example, lowercase indicates names of tables, columns, or files.
Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown. |
SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; sqlplus hr/hr CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9; |
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