Features of RMAN

Feature Description Incremental backups Up to four levels; level 0 and levels 1 and 4. Corrupt block detection During backup: v$backup_corruption, v$copy_corruption Also reported in the databases alert log and trace files. Restore Easy management Distributing database backups, resources, and recoveries across clustered nodes in an Oracle parallel server. Performance Automatic parallelization of backup, restore, and recovery. Multiplexing prevents flooding any one file with reads and writes while keeping a tape drive streaming. Backups can be restricted to limit reads per file, per second to avoid interfering with OLTP work. No generation of extra redo during open database backups. Easy backup of archived redo logs. Limit file size Limits number of open files. Size of backup piece. Recovery catalog Automates restore and recovery operations. Selective backups Backs up an entire database, selected tablespaces, or selected data files.