Description

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a comprehensive database backup and recovery manager designed for data storage administrators. It enables users to optimize performance and space consumption with file multiplexing and backup set compression, backup tasks across different host operating systems, manage and store metadata about operations in the control file of the target database, locate backups and accomplish online redo logs, compute checksums for corrupted blocks, create a duplicate of the production database, as well as execute automatic parallelization. Features include configuration optimization, catalog management, database management, utility scheduling optimization, third-party media management, command-line interface support, and tape backup capability.