RMAN Backups

Types of Recovery Manager Backups Recovery Manager provides functionality to back up: The entire database, every datafile in a tablespace, or a single datafile The control file All or selected archived logs Note: The online redo log files are not backed up when using Recovery Manager. Closed Database Backups A closed database backup is defined as a backup of the database while it is closed (offline). This is the same as the consistent database backup. If you are performing a closed backup, the target database must not be open. If you are using a recovery catalog, the recovery catalog database must be open. Open Database Backups An open...