Audience

Backup and Recovery Reference is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Use Recovery Manager (RMAN) to back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases

• Perform maintenance on RMAN backups of database files

To use this document, you must know the following:

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

• RMAN concepts and tasks as described in Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide

• The operating system environment under which you are running Oracle Database