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User-managed backups overview - Oracle Database Tutorial
From the course: Oracle Database 12c: Backup and Recovery
User-managed backups overview
- [Instructor] User-managed backup and recovery in Oracle refers to any backup strategy in which recovery manager, RMAN, is not used to backup and recover the database. User-managed backups is pretty much manual backups that are often executed using operating system or storage-based tools. To perform user-managed online backups of our database, that is, without downtime, we start by enabling a special online backup mode in our Oracle database. We do that by running the alter database begin backup command, followed by copying our database data files, control files, and archived redo log files to our backup destination. You can do this by using operation system-based copy commands, such as cp in Linux. That's because combining the Oracle database hot backup mode with storage snapshots makes the most sense. You can enable the database hot backup mode and instead of copying the database files manually to your backup destination, which can take time, you simply request your high-end…
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