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Recovery Manager and Tempfiles (Doc ID 305993.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Applies to:

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

Purpose

This article serves to explain tempfiles and it's role with Recovery Manager (RMAN) and in backup, restore and recovery scenarios. 

NOTE: In the images and/or the document content below, the user information and environment data used represents
fictitious data from the Oracle sample schema(s), Public Documentation delivered with an Oracle database product or
other training material. Any similarity to actual environments, actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
and not intended in any manner.

For the purposes of this document, the following fictitious environment is used as an example to describe the procedure:

Database name: TEST
Temp Tablespace Name: TEMP

Scope

The audience for this article are database administrators (DBA).
It goes to some details, but stays mainly on overview level. 

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