This book is a quick-reference guide for Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's utility to manage all of your Oracle database backup and recovery activities. This book is not a comprehensive backup and recovery book. It contains an overview of RMAN architecture, shows briefly how to backup and restore databases using RMAN, describes catalog setup issues, and provides quick-reference syntax diagrams of RMAN commands. | Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference By Darl Kuhn, Scott Schulze Publisher : O'Reilly Pub Date : November 2001 ISBN : 0-596-00233-5 Table of • Pages : 120 Contents • Reviews Reader • Reviews • Errata Copyright Chapter 1. Oracle RMANPocket Reference Section . Introduction Section . RMAN Architecture Section . Starting RMAN Section . Executing Commands Section . Implementing a Catalog Section . Stored Catalog Scripts Section . Backups Section . Restoring Files Section . RMAN Command Reference Chapter 1. Oracle RMANPocket Reference Section . Introduction Section . RMAN Architecture Section . Starting RMAN Section . Executing Commands Section . Implementing a Catalog Section . Stored Catalog Scripts Section . Backups Section . Restoring Files Section . RMAN Command Reference Introduction This book is a quick-reference guide for Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's utility to manage all of your Oracle database backup and recovery activities. This book is not a comprehensive backup and recovery book. It contains an overview of RMAN architecture, shows briefly how to backup and restore databases using RMAN, describes catalog setup issues, and provides quick-reference syntax diagrams of RMAN commands. The purpose of this book is to help you quickly find the syntax for, and use, RMAN commands to back up, restore, and recover a database. We assume that you, the reader, have basic Oracle database administrator (DBA) skills, and that you are familiar with backup and recovery concepts. We also point out that the batch mode examples in this book are scripted with Unix shell scripts. Many of these examples contain Unix paths that are appropriate for our environment. If you are developing your own set of scripts, you will want to change the examples to reflect your own environment. Acknowledgments Many thanks to "our man," editor Jonathan Gennick. His feedback and suggestions have added significant improvements and clarity to .
