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Top 10 Backup and Recovery Best Practices (Doc ID 388422.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 08, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
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
Information in this document applies to any platform.
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Purpose

Top 10 Backup and Recovery best practices.


This document assumes that you are doing the Backup and Recovery basics
- Running in Archivelog mode
- Multiplexing the controlfile
- Taking regular backups
- Periodically doing a complete restore to test your procedures.
- Restore and recovery validate will not uncover nologging issues. Consider turning on force-logging if they need all transactions to be recovered, and not face nologging problems ( ALTER DATABASE FORCE LOGGING; ) 

 

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 Top 10 Backup and Recovery best practices.
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