RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 12c: A Problem-Solution Approach

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Apress, Aug 24, 2013 - Computers - 796 pages

RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 12c is an example-driven approach to the Oracle database administrator's #1 job responsibility:

  • Be able to recover the database.

Of all the things you are responsible for as database administrator, nothing is more important than the data itself. Like it or not, the fearsome responsibility of protecting your organization's most critical data falls squarely upon your shoulders:

  • Lose that data and your company could fail.
  • Lose that data and you could be out of a job.

Oracle's flagship database product fortunately implements a wide-ranging feature set to aid you in the all-important task of safeguarding against data loss. Recovery Manager, or RMAN, is at the heart of that feature set, and is the tool most-often used to initiate database backup and recovery operations. In this book, well-known authors and database experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda have created a set of examples encompassing the gamut of backup and recovery tasks that you might need to perform.

Sometimes, especially when the heat is on, a good example is what you need to get started towards a solution. RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 12c delivers. It’ll be the book you reach for when that dreaded call comes in at 3:00am some dreary morning. It’ll be the book that lets you sleep at night knowing that no matter what transpires, that you've done your job well and can recover from any outage. RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 12c gets right to the point with quick and easy-to-read, step-by-step solutions that can help you backup and recover your data with confidence.

 

Contents

Backup and Recovery 101
1
JumpStarting RMAN
21
Using the Fast Recovery Area
39
Using RMAN
85
Configuring the Rman Environment
111
Using the Recovery Catalog
147
Making Backups with RMAN
173
Maintaining RMAN Backups and the Repository
225
Troubleshooting RMAN
533
Using Oracle Secure Backup as a Media Management Layer
567
Performing Backup and Recovery with Enterprise Manager
597
Using the Data Recovery Advisor
617
Using RMAN on Windows
627
RMAN in an Oracle Data Guard Environment
653
RMAN and RAC
671
RMAN and ASM
683

Scripting RMAN
255
Restoring the Control File
291
Performing Complete Recovery
309
Performing Incomplete Recovery
365
Performing Flashback Recovery
395
Handling Online Redo Log Failures
443
Duplicating Databases and Transporting Data
459
Tuning RMAN
503
RMAN in Exadata
695
Index
719
Contents
vii
Foreword
lvii
About the Authors
lix
About the Technical Reviewers
lxi
Acknowledgments
lxii
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Darl Kuhn is a senior database administrator working for Oracle. He handles all facets of database administration from design and development to production support. He also teaches advanced database courses at Regis University in Colorado. Darl does volunteer DBA work for the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group. He has a graduate degree from Colorado State University and lives near Spanish Peaks, Colorado, with his wife, Heidi, and daughters, Brandi and Lisa.

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