Oracle RMAN (Oracle Recovery Manager) is a utility built into Oracle databases to automate backup and recovery; it includes features not available in third-party backup tools. RMAN was introduced in ...

Last week Oracle and Amazon Web Services held a webinar to outline how Oracle works on Amazon’s EC2, including database backups to the Cloud. Running Oracle on EC2 is not too thrilling, though it’s ...

There are some situations in which Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) isn't required for Oracle backups. The most obvious situation that comes to mind is that it is possible to back up a cold database (a ...