When databases get ever larger and larger, backing them up using traditional RMAN backupsets will quickly get unfeasible. Completing a backup requires too much time and resources, but more importantly the same also applies to restores. RMAN has always provided a solution as incrementally updated image copies, but they are much less manageable than backupsets.…

New DBA's hear stories from their experienced peers about databases being recovered from certain failure and the heroics involved, but what's the reason for those successes? One of the main tools, used by the savior DBA, is the Recovery Manager: RMAN. We're entrusted with our customer's data and the novice DBA has to know how…

With data growth abounding, database administrators are constantly challenged to support business-critical data protection requirements. Oracle Recovery Manager has continuously evolved over the past 15 years, with each release offering richer functionality and integration with Oracle' high-availability products to address those requirements. Attend this Oracle Recovery Manager technical session to learn about next-generation backup and…

As a DBA tasked with protecting your databases, you understand that backup and recovery success is a critical, yet often time consuming process.  But, did you know that there are tools available today to enable you not only to fine-tune your RMAN processes but also give you purview into the underlying infrastructre?   And, did…

RMAN as most know it, is one of the most important utilities in a DBAs arsenal. In earlier releases it is fair to say that occasionally it did create havoc and some DBA's were afraid to use it.   Is it too complex? “Backup database” - does not look to complex does it? This session will…

Friends, Romans, countR-MAN, lend me your ears...... Database backup - the winter of our discontent.Duplicate and restore .... True is it that we have seen better days..... O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou RMANeo? There are benefits to faster backups, as they also lead to faster batch jobs. This is the short and the long of…

RMAN has been significantly enhanced in Oracle database 12C. Some of the enhancements include features DBAs assume already exist in the DBs. For example, cross platform backup and restore, network enabled restore, table level recovery, etc. This paper highlights these enhancements with examples on how to benefit from them as well as the internal workings…

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) has evolved since being released in version 8i. With the newest version of Oracle 12c , RMAN has great new features that will allow you to reduce your down time in case of a disaster. In this session you will learn about the new features that were introduced in Oracle…