Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

This is a guide for DBAs who intend to use Oracle Recovery Manager for database backup and recovery. The first part of the book is primarily task-oriented. After a short section on RMAN architecture, the book shows (in checklist style) how to perform common backup and recovery tasks such as: implementing a recovery catalog; creating and running RMAN scripts; configuring input/output channels; taking a full database backup; backing up tablespaces and datafiles; taking incremental backups; and recovering lost datafiles. The second portion of the book consists of a syntax reference to the many RMAN commands.