Recovery Manager (RMAN)

Recovery Manager (RMAN) is an Oracle utility used to back up, restore, and recover database files. RMAN performs important backup and recovery procedures and greatly simplifies the tasks that administrators perform during these procedures. For more information about the Recovery Manager, see the Oracle Backup and Recovery Guide.

Using RMAN and Arcserve Backup, you specify your own RMAN scripts to perform backups. You can also use RMAN directly to back up any online database object by connecting directly to RMAN with or without a recovery catalog at the command line.

Note: When using the agent or RMAN to back up, we recommend you use a recovery catalog installed in a separate database.

After backing up an Oracle database using RMAN, you can restore the database using either the agent or RMAN. Similarly, if you back up an Oracle database using the Agent for Oracle, you can restore the database using either RMAN or the agent.