Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), a command-line and Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager

The computer application Oracle Enterprise Manager aims to manage software produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle entities.-Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control :...

-based tool, is the Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

-preferred method for efficiently backing up and recovering an Oracle database

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

. RMAN 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 and third-party media-management products for tape backup.

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

External links

• Technical Overview
• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1)
• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Reference 11g Release 1 (11.1)