CHAPTER6
The RMAN Recovery Catalog
Oracle maintains all the metadata related to RMAN operations in the RMAN repository. The RMAN repository is always stored in the control file of the target databases. However, in most cases we will also want to store this metadata in a database. The name of the database where we store RMAN-related metadata is called the RMAN recovery catalog.
RMAN does not require the recovery catalog for most operations. There are a few operations that the recovery catalog makes easier, and there are very few things that require a recovery catalog (such as cases where you want to store backups for more than a year). Because ...
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