Title: Chapter 7: Miscellaneous RMAN Features
Course: DEPT MC - ORACLE DATABASE MANAGEMENT II > Section: Unit 2 - Database Administration II

Chapter 6 took a little detour away from RMAN to cover user-managed recovery techniques. It’s important that you know how to make backups outside of RMAN for three reasons:

■ The complexity of using RMAN might be overkill for a small read-only database.

■ A user-managed backup strategy (including logical backups) can be a fallback for RMAN-created backups in case of a corrupted RMAN backup or bug in RMAN itself (both of which are quite rare).

■ You need to know how to perform user-managed backups for the certification exam!

This chapter moves back into the world of RMAN and covers two important RMAN features: creating a duplicate database, and using tablespace point-in-time recovery (TSPITR).

Chapter 7 Learning Outcomes:

- Create a duplicate database using RMAN
- Ability to Use a duplicate database
- Describe the situations that require TSPITR
- Perform automated TSPITR

*Quizzes for Chapters 6 through 10 are all open until Exam 2 date.

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