Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

Oracle Recovery Manager satisfies the most pressing demands of performant, manageable backup and recovery, for all Oracle data formats.

A complete high availability and disaster recovery strategy requires dependable data backup, restore, and recovery procedures. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) provides a comprehensive foundation for efficiently backing up and recovering the Oracle database. It is designed to work intimately with the server, providing block-level corruption detection during backup and restore. RMAN optimizes performance and space consumption during backup with file multiplexing and backup set compression, and integrates with Oracle Secure Backup, as well as third party media management products, for tape backup.

RMAN takes care of all underlying database procedures before and after backup or restore, freeing dependency on OS and SQL*Plus scripts. It provides a common interface, via command line and Enterprise Manager, for backup tasks across different host operating systems and offers features not available through user-managed methods, such as parallelization of backup/restore data streams, backup files retention policy, and detailed history of all backups.
 

Technology Oracle Backup and Recovery Technologies Technical White Paper Very Large Database (VLDB) Backup & Recovery Best Practices Preventing, Detecting, and Repairing Block Corruption RMAN Performance Tuning Best Practices Starbucks RMAN Performance Tuning Case Study Transparent Data Encryption and RMAN Backups Snapshots are NOT Backups Oracle Database Cloning Solution Using RMAN and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Backup Solutions Program (BSP) OpenWorld Presentations Customer Success Stories

Documentation Backup and Recovery User's Guide Backup and Recovery Reference

Training Demonstrations Instructor-Led Training Oracle by Example Tutorials

Recovery Manager 10g Collateral RMAN Backup & Recovery Optimization Using Recovery Manager with Oracle Data Guard Best Practices for Cloning ASM-managed Databases