Audience

Backup and Recovery User's Guide is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases

• Perform maintenance on backups of database files

• Transfer data between a file system and ASM or between platforms when installing Oracle Database

To use this document, you need to know the following:

• Relational database concepts and basic database administration as described in Oracle Database Concepts and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• The operating system environment under which you are running the database