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RMAN Incremental Backups and Archivelogs (Doc ID 1527806.1)

Last updated on MARCH 10, 2023

Applies to:

Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

What are incremental backups? Why are archivelogs still required to recover a database from an 'online' incremental backup?

Discuss the relationship and/or dependency between incremental backup and archivelogs.
 

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