RMAN TDP 11g

RMAN provides consistent and secure backup, restore, and recovery performance for Oracle databases. While the Oracle RMAN initiates a backup or restore, Data Protection for Oracle acts as the interface to the Tivoli Storage Manager server . The Tivoli Storage Manager server then applies administrator-defined storage management policies to the data. Data Protection for Oracle implements the Oracle defined Media Management application program interface (SBTAPI) 2.0. This SBTAPI interfaces with RMAN and translates Oracle commands into Tivoli Storage Manager API calls to the Tivoli Storage Manager server. With the use of RMAN, Data Protection for Oracle allows you to perform the following functions: v Full and incremental backup function for the following while online or offline: – Databases – Tablespaces – Datafiles – Archive log files – Control filesv Full database restores while offline v Tablespace and datafile restore while online or offlineLAN-