Books for professionals By professionals ® RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach Dear Reader, RMAN is the tool of choice for Oracle database backup and recovery. RMAN contains core features that aren’t available with other backup and recovery solutions. Furthermore, Oracle continues to integrate RMAN with other products such as Enterprise Manager, RAC, ASM, and Data Guard. If you are a DBA in an Oracle shop, then it’s vital that you know how to use RMAN effectively. Your job depends on it. This recipe book provides you with focused solutions for the gamut of RMAN backup and recovery tasks. We know from hard experience that sometimes all you need is an easy-to-find, clear example showing how a feature works. This is especially true when you have a critical issue that is causing database downtime. In those situations, people expect you to earn your keep and quickly solve the problem. Failure is not an option. This book is unique in that it contains answers for almost any RMAN backup and recovery problem that you’re likely to encounter. We tackle all scenarios, from simple to complex. Each recipe title is an indexed entry to a particular problem. In the recipe you’ll find the solution and a detailed explanation of how it works. You won’t be shown merely how to parrot RMAN commands. We explain why features work like they do. If your company uses Oracle technology, then RMAN should be a key piece of your data protection strategy. As a DBA, you’re the one responsible for making it work. We hope that you’ll use this book to fully maximize RMAN to protect, secure, and ensure the availability of your company’s databases. Sincerely, Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, Arup Nanda US $59.99 Shelve in Databases/Oracle User level: Beginner–Intermediate Kuhn, Alapati, Nanda Oracle RMAN Recipes The eXperT’s Voice ® in oracle RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g A Problem-Solution Approach Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda Companion eBook Available THE APRESS ROADMAP Expert Oracle Database Architecture RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g Expert Oracle Database 10g Administration Practical RMAN for the Busy DBA Practical RMAN for the Busy DBA An example-based approach to backing up and recovering your Oracle database. this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 1.3237" 704 page count cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123 c Darl Kuhn, coauthor of Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-851-1 ISBN-10: 1-59059-851-2 9 781590 598511 5 5 9 9 9 www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version Sam Alapati, author of Expert Oracle Database 10g Administration Arup Nanda, author of Oracle 11g New Features Series on Oracle Technology Network [...]... books for Apress about Oracle9 i Database and Oracle 10g Database administration Sam also wrote two Oracle certification books for Oracle Press Sam lives in the town of Flower Mound near Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Valerie; daughter, Nina; and sons, Shannon and Nicholas ■ARUP NANDA has been an Oracle DBA since 1993, when the world was slowly turning its attention to a big force to reckon with Oracle. .. production Oracle database running Oracle 6 Since then, he has never been out of the Oracle DBA career path—weaving several interesting situations from modeling to performance tuning to backup/recovery and beyond, with lots of gray hairs to document each ORA-600 He has written articles for publications such as Oracle Magazine and for Oracle Tech Net, he has presented at conferences such as Oracle World... Installing EMC NetWorker Module for Oracle 572 18-19 Backing Up Using the EMC NetWorker Module for Oracle 574 18-20 Restoring Using the EMC NetWorker Module for Oracle 577 18-21 Uninstalling the EMC NetWorker Module for Oracle 578 18-22 Verifying the MML Installation 579 ■ CHAPTER 19 Performing Backup and Recovery with... ■SAM ALAPATI manages Oracle databases for the Boy Scouts of America at its National Office in Los Colinas, Texas, where he performs both DBA tasks as well as some HP Unix system administration work Before this, Sam worked for Sabre in Dallas and Lewco Securities in New Jersey Prior to that, Sam worked at Lehman Brothers and ABC in New York City as a senior principal consultant for Oracle Corporation... reluctance to adopt RMAN came about not from any failings in the product, but rather from disappointment that the product did not make the job of performing backups any easier Since backups are the operation that DBAs see most often, what RMAN does for recovery operations was not fully appreciated As I teach people how to use RMAN, I attempt to stress the mind-set that RMAN is not just about performing backups... for sharing Tim Gorman Evergreen, Colorado July 2007 xix 8512Ch00CMP4 7/27/07 6:21 AM Page xx 8512Ch00CMP4 7/27/07 6:21 AM Page xxi About the Authors ■DARL KUHN is a senior DBA with Sun Microsystems Before joining Sun, his work as a consultant ranged from database administration to custom application development Darl is the coauthor of Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference and has written several articles for. .. Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference and has written several articles for Oracle Magazine In addition, he is an affiliate professor at Regis University where he teaches Oracle courses for the graduate department of computer information technology For the past 10 years, Darl has served as a volunteer DBA and developer for the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Darl has a master’s degree from Colorado State University... 545 Using Oracle Secure Backup 546 18-1 Configuring RMAN Access to the Oracle Secure Backup sbt Library 548 18-2 Managing Authorized OSB Accounts 549 18-3 Creating OSB Media Families for RMAN Backups 551 18-4 Creating an OSB Database Backup Storage Selector 552 18-5 Configuring OSB Parameters in RMAN ... ■CONTENTS ■ CHAPTER 16 Tuning RMAN 491 16-1 Identifying RMAN Processes 493 16-2 Measuring Backup Performance 494 16-3 Monitoring RMAN Job Progress 498 16-4 Identifying I/O Bottlenecks 500 16-5 Improving Tape I/O Performance ... us back to database administrators…I hope! What sets a DBA apart from an ambitious programmer or a developer doing what needs to be done to move forward? It is the ability to prepare for trouble and recover from it Database recovery in the event of failure or mishap is the most vital skill in a DBA’s toolkit The Oracle RDBMS has been around now for about 30 years The internal mechanisms for backup . Architecture RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g Expert Oracle Database 10g Administration Practical RMAN for the Busy DBA Practical RMAN for the Busy. Databases /Oracle User level: Beginner–Intermediate Kuhn, Alapati, Nanda Oracle RMAN Recipes The eXperT’s Voice ® in oracle RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database