Database Management

(DBAS32100)

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Backup and Recovery

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 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Startup and shutdown

• Understand the purpose of back up and recovery
• consistent full database backup

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 PURPOSE OF BACKUP

Data protection from failure

Data preservation
Data transfer

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 WHOLE AND PARTIAL BACKUP

Whole database backup

Partial backup
–Datafile - Oracle stores data logically in tablespaces and physically in datafiles. Each tablespace in an
Oracle database consists of one or more files called datafiles
–Control File - The database control file is a small binary file necessary for the database to start and
operate successfully.

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 CONSISTENT AND INCONSISTENT BACKUP

Consistent backup & Inconsistent backup - This means that the files in the
backup contain all the data taken from a same point in time. Unlike an
inconsistent backup, a consistent whole database backup does not require
recovery after it is restored.

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 INCREMENTAL BACKUP

An incremental backup is one in which successive

copies of the data contain only the portion
that has changed since the preceding backup copy
was made.

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 CONSISTENT BACKUP A

Please refer to consistent backup scenario that you

will find on slate

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