Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10734-01 |
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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:
To use this document, you need to know the following:
This document contains:
This section offers detailed conceptual information for Recovery Manager (RMAN).
This chapter describes the application architecture of the RMAN environment.
This chapter describes how to start RMAN and connect to target, catalog, and auxiliary databases.
This chapter describes basic concepts involved in RMAN restore, recovery, and database duplication.
This chapter describes basic concepts involved in maintaining the RMAN repository.
This section describes advanced procedures for using RMAN.
This chapter gives detailed information for how to connect to databases with RMAN.
This chapter describes advanced configurations in the RMAN environment.
This chapter describes detailed procedure for using the BACKUP
command.
This chapter includes advanced scenarios and techniques using the RESTORE
and RECOVER
commands.
This chapter describes the Flashback features of the Oracle database, and their use in a data recovery context.
This chapter describes how to recover one or more tablespaces to a past point in time without affecting the rest of the database.
This chapter describes how to use DUPLICATE
to create a copy of the target database.
This chapter describes how to use RMAN to move databases into and out of Automatic Storage Management disk groups.
This chapter describes how to create and manage a recovery catalog.
This chapter gives tips for improving RMAN backup and restore performance.
This chapter gives tips for diagnosing and responding to RMAN problems.
This section describes how to use operating system utilities to back up and restore a database and how to use the SQL*Plus RECOVER
command.
This chapter describes how to use operating system command to back up database files and archived redo logs.
This chapter describes how to use the SQL*Plus FLASHBACK DATABASE
and RECOVER
commands.
This chapter describes advanced scenarios involving user-managed restore and recovery.
This chapter describes how to perform user-managed TSPITR.
This chapter describes how to diagnose and solve problems in user-managed media recovery.
For more information, see these Oracle resources:
http://www.oracle.com/database/recovery
You can access information about the Backup Solutions Program at
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability
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SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';
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