From the exclusive publishers of oracle press booksoracle database 10g rman backup recovery shows you step by step how to set up rman ready databases create reliable backup tapes and discs and perform accurate oracle system restores. The following settings for rman and the oracle database simplify the backup and recovery operations and are based on datafile and archived log backups being made at one of the standby database servers using recovery manager with oracle data guard in oracle database 10g page 6. Installed with the database recovery manager rman is an oracle database client which performs backup and recovery tasks on your databases and automates administration of your backup strategies it greatly simplifies backing up restoring and recovering database files. Oracler database backup and recovery basics 10g release 2 102 b14192 03 november 2005 an introduction to the basics of backup and recovery of oracle databases focusing on the use of recovery manager for common backup and recovery tasks