Audience

Backup and Recovery Reference is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases

• Perform maintenance on backups and copies 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 RMAN concepts and tasks as described in Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics

• The operating system environment under which you are running Oracle