Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery (Paperback)

by Robert Freeman (Author), Matthew Hart (Author) "So, you bought this book to learn about RMAN..." (more)
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Product Description
From the exclusive publishers of Oracle Press Books, here is the only book available offering complete coverage of RMAN (Recovery Manager), Oracle's free backup and recovery technology. An indispensable resource for new Oracle users, database administrators, and system administrators.

From the Back Cover
Learn to Use All the Features of Oracle Recovery Manager

Take full advantage of RMAN (Recovery Manager), the backup and recovery technology built into Oracle9i. From the exclusive publishers of Oracle Press books, this expert guide details RMAN's features and explains how to set up databases for RMAN, back up and recover databases with RMAN, use the recovery catalog, and much more. You'll also get helpful case studies that illustrate RMAN in action. This is an indispensable resource for all Oracle DBAs and system administrators.

• Configure RMAN default settings
• Use RMAN for offline, online, and incremental backups
• Restore RMAN backups to disk and recover your database
• Use Oracle9i Enterprise Manager for backup and recovery
• Maintain and tune RMAN and use the recovery catalog
• Use Legato Single Server Version (LSSV), VERITAS NetBackup, and other media management tools
• Run RMAN lists and reports
• Leverage RMAN for high availability environments
• Create clone databases and standby databases from RMAN backups
• Back up and recover Real Applications Cluster (RAC) databases

Covers Oracle Database Releases 8i and 9i

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (October 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072226625
• ISBN-13: 978-0072226621
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #609,186 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning Oracle RMAN, November 18, 2002

By	Dennis W. Willaims (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is an invaluable supplement to the Oracle RMAN documentation. It serves two audiences well: if you are just beginning to learn RMAN, or if you need to configure RMAN with a media management tool like Veritas, Legato, etc. Robert includes some great diagrams that really clarify what occurs during different RMAN operations. For the beginner, Robert includes many tips for things that aren't covered well in the Oracle documentation that can really trip up a beginner. I sure wish this book had been published earlier when I was struggling to learn RMAN from just the Oracle documentation. If you are beyond the basics, there is plenty of advanced material to configure RMAN at a large enterprise. If you are still running Oracle8i, Robert describes how to adapt the material back to Oracle8i.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars book just adequate, July 1, 2004

By A Customer

Both authors apparently have considerable experience in oracle and rman. The book appears to have been put together very quickly perhaps too quickly. Much of the serious work done with oracle is done on unix platforms but almost all of the examples shown are done on windows.

The rman in the workplace chapter is perhaps one of the most contrived. While the authors probably have real workplace experience the case studies do not seem to demonstrate more than "possible scenarios".

There are not a lot of rman books out there so this book may be useful to many people but it seems like this is a very unfinished piece of work to me. It does provide a different set of words than the oracle manuals.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on market for RMAN and Backups, March 29, 2005

By	Benjamin S. Prusinski "real dba" (san diego, ca) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a production DBA this is the best book so far since Velpuri wrote the original Oracle 8i backup and recovery book a decade ago. I like this a lot and together with the Oracle documentation, setting up and using RMAN is a snap compared to the pain it used to be to stumble with RMAN before. Throw away logical backups and hassle of SQL backups and use the power of RMAN. I was able to get cooking in a few hours with a good RMAN setup for our test and production database environments. Together with the Oracle 10g RAC book you have the complete knowledge to be a true HA Oracle DBA.