18 Performing User-Managed Database Flashback and Recovery

This chapter describes how to restore and recover a database, and use the flashback features of Oracle, when using a user-managed backup and recovery strategy, that is, a a strategy that does not depend upon using Recovery Manager.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• User-Managed Flashback Features of Oracle

• About User-Managed Restore Operations

• Determining Which Datafiles Require Recovery

• Restoring Datafiles and Archived Redo Logs

• Restoring Control Files

• About User-Managed Media Recovery

• Performing Complete User-Managed Media Recovery

• Performing User-Managed Database Point-in-Time Recovery

• Opening the Database with the RESETLOGS Option

• Recovering a Database in NOARCHIVELOG Mode

• Controlling Parallel Media Recovery