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Backup files

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- [Teacher] For the grand finale of our Oracle Database Storage discussion, let's talk about a few other types of database files you should know about. Starting with files that relate to database backups. Database backup files include any backups of your database that you have taken and placed somewhere safe, as well as copies of the redo log files created by the database archiver process. There are a lot of technologies you can use to back up your Oracle database. These are outside the scope of our course, but from a database storage perspective, it is still very important to mention database backup files when talking about database storage. We can assume that at least once in your career, you will be tasked with restoring an Oracle database from failure. Let's just hope that it's only once. When you take a backup of your Oracle database, the consistent state of the database used for recovery is known as the database backup files. These are usually copies of your database data files,…

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