Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the Oracle Database architecture and its components relevant to backup and recovery
- Configure and manage the Flash Recovery Area (FRA)
- Utilize Recovery Manager (RMAN) to perform various backup and recovery operations
- Implement effective backup strategies, including full, incremental, and differential backups
- Recover a database from various failure scenarios, such as media failures and logical corruption
- Utilize advanced recovery techniques, including flashback database, flashback table, and flashback transaction query
- Optimize backup and recovery performance
- Secure backup and recovery processes
Course outlines
- 1. Introduction to Oracle Database Backup and Recovery
- Overview of Oracle Database architecture
- Importance of backup and recovery
- Recovery Manager (RMAN) concepts
- Flash Recovery Area (FRA) concepts
- 2. RMAN Configuration and Basics
- RMAN configuration
- RMAN command-line interface
- Basic RMAN commands (CONNECT, TARGET, CATALOG)
- RMAN scripts
- 3. Backup Strategies and Techniques
- Full database backups
- Incremental backups
- Differential backups
- Datafile backups
- Control file and archived log backups
- Backup compression and encryption
- Backup optimization techniques
- 4. Recovery Techniques
- Database recovery
- Instance recovery
- Point-in-time recovery
- Flashback Database
- Flashback Table
- Flashback Transaction Query
- 5. Advanced Backup and Recovery Topics
- Data Guard configuration and backup
- Golden Gate replication and backup
- RMAN duplicate database creation
- RMAN recovery catalog
- RMAN configuration parameters
- 6. Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning
- Common backup and recovery issues
- Troubleshooting techniques
- RMAN performance tuning
- Backup and recovery best practice