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Managing Database Backups

Oracle supplies a powerful utility to back up and recover Oracle Databases. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is included along with the Oracle Database software install. This chapter shows how the private cloud administrator or DBA can set up and schedule RMAN database backups using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c instead of the older, more time-consuming, manual method of UNIX shell scripting and cron jobs.

RMAN scripts have traditionally been used by DBAs to run complete or incremental database backups. The scripts are placed in a shell script wrapper at the UNIX level, and backups are scheduled using ...

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