Oracle Backup and Recovery: Expert secrets for using RMAN and Data Pump - Paperback

by Aman Sharma (Author), Kamran Agayev Agamehdi (Author)

Backup and recovery are mission-critical DBA tasks, and it is critical that every Oracle professional develop a RMAN strategy that guarantees recoverability while minimizing unplanned downtime. RMAN is one of the world's most sophisticated backup and recovery tools. It is robust and complex with thousands of options. This landmark book demonstrates, by example, how to create a successful backup and recovery infrastructure using RMAN. This book also contains links to RMAN video tutorials and a download of working RMAN scripts to guide users through full automation of a backup strategy. Together, backup and recovery are the single most important combined DBA activity, and it is crucial that you master the RMAN and Data Pump Import utilities to protect against catastrophic data loss. Written by practicing Oracle DBAs with years of RMAN experience, this is a pragmatic approach to RMAN, focusing less on theory and more on real-world, practical RMAN tools, tips and techniques. This Oracle backup and recovery book is unique because it provides real-world examples on how to use RMAN and other tools to protect your mission critical data. Even with reliable mirrored disks, your important Oracle database is still at-risk from from software corruption, user error and hardware failures. This book details Oracle RMAN best practices and shows the best ways to minimize backup and recovery time, which is critical for maximizing system availability This is the definitive RMAN reference that guides you, step-by-step, through all of the techniques for Oracle backup and recovery, from simple cold backups to complex incremental backups. Experienced RMAN experts guide you through the installation, setup and configuration for a complete RMAN backup and recovery infrastructure using proven techniques and Oracle best practices. Best of all, you be given the opportunity to learn from supplemental video tutorials and working examples how to recover from every possible data scenario. This book has step-by-step checklists that you can follow to guide you through a complex recovery with minimal unplanned system outages. This is an indispensible RMAN reference for every professional DBA who needs to ensure that they understand every possible backup and recovery strategy. It also contains a download of working RMAN scripts to help you easily automate and monitor your RMAN backups.

Author Biography

Kamran Agayev Agamehdi is an Oracle ACE and an Oracle Certified Professional DBA with many years of experience managing complex UNIX-based Oracle Databases. As a working IT professional, Kamran has experience in a wide range of mission critical technologies, specializing in database administration best practices for backup and recovery. Kamran has hands-on experience with real-world Production environments, and he has risen in the ranks from a developer to a managing DBA. Kamran possesses the rare combination of technical and managerial skills and his outstanding communication skills enhance his duties as liaison between functional business management and the technical DBA and SA professionals Currently Kamran is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Azerbaijan Oil Academy and he serves as an adjunct professor teaching Oracle Database Administration in a Qafqaz University. Kamran also publishes a popular blog at http: //kamranagayev.wordpress.com. Aman Sharma is an Oracle database specialist, an Oracle Certified Professional(9i,10g,11g), an Oracle Certified Expert for Linux and SQL and an Oracle ACE. He is a Sun Certified System Admin with over 6 years of experience. Mr. Sharma works as an instructor training professionals around Asia Pacific in Oracle related technologies. Prior to his work as an instructor, he worked as a DBA for a large software development company. In his spare time, when he is not teaching or not traveling, he likes to spend his free time in various Oracle forums over the web. Mr. Sharma also writes about Oracle database over his blog at http: //blog.aristadba.com.