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Encrypting RMAN Backups

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Encrypting RMAN Backups

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- [Instructor] RMAN or Recovery Manager, Oracle's main physical backup and recovery technology, also supports creating encrypted backups. This is extremely important as RMAN is often used as the primary backup and recovery tool for most Oracle DBAs. RMAN supports three methods of encryption: transparent mode encryption, password mode encryption and dual mode encryption. We'll see all three in action in this video. So let's start by connection RMAN to our Oracle instance. I'll type RMAN target backslash. If you are unfamiliar with RMAN or RMAN backup script syntax, then please be sure to check out my Oracle12C backup and recovery course that is also available in the content library. That course is dedicated to Oracle backup and recovery technologies, including RMAN while here we focus mainly on RMAN backup security. Now that we are connected using RMAN to our target database, let's run a very simple RMAN backup script specifying "set encryption on". You can find this script included in…

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