Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

Robert G. Freeman is an Oracle Database 10g Oracle Certified Professional that has been working with Oracle databases for well over 15 years. He is a Principle Datababase Engineer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Ut. He resides near Salt Lake with his wife, three of his five kids and cats, dogs and an airplane. Robert is the author or co-author of several Oracle Press titles including Oracle9i New Features, Oracle Database 10g New Features, Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery and Portable DBA: Oracle. Matthew Hart (Colorado Springs, CO) has worked exclusively with the Windows Operating System for more than 5 years, the last 3 of which have been with Oracle Corporation, assisting Oracle customer implement the RDBMS on Windows NT and 2000. From 1999 onward, his role has increasingly become focused on Oracles high availability solutions, specifically Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Advanced Replication. For the past 6 months he has been involved in the beta testing of Oracle9i, and he currently supports beta customers who are rolling out 9i into the enterprise. Matthew became an Oracle Certified Professional in May 1999.

Preliminary Contents Subject to Change Prior to Publication

Part I. Getting Started with RMAN in OracleDatabase 11g
Ch. 1 Oracle Database 11g Backup and RecoveryArchitecture Tour
Ch. 2 Introduction to the RMAN Architecture

Part II. Setup Principles and Practices
Ch. 3 RMAN Setup and Configuration
Ch. 4 Media Management Considerations
Ch. 5 Oracle Secure Backup
Ch. 6 Backing Up to Amazon Web Services Using the Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module
Ch. 7 Enhancing RMAN with VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle
Ch. 8 Configuring HP Data Protector for Oracle
Ch. 9 RMAN and Tivoli Storage Manager
Ch. 10 Using the Recovery Catalog
Ch. 11 RMAN Backups
Ch. 12 RMAN Restore and Recovery

Part III. Using RMAN Effectively
Ch. 13 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager for Backup and Recovery
Ch. 14 RMAN Advanced Recovery Topics
Ch. 15 Surviving User Errors: Flashback Technologies
Ch. 16 Maintaining RMAN
Ch. 17 Monitoring and Reporting on RMAN
Ch. 18 Performance Tuning RMAN Backup and Recovery Operations

PART IV. RMAN in the Oracle Ecosystem
Ch. 19 Duplication: Cloning the Target Database
Ch. 20 RMAN and Data Guard
Ch. 21 RMAN and Real Application Clusters
Ch. 22 RMAN in Sync and Split Technology
Ch. 23 RMAN in the Workplace: Case Studies

Appendices
A RMAN Syntax Reference Guide
B RMAN Scriping Examples
C Setting Up an RMAN Test Environment

Index