There are some situations in which Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) isn't required for Oracle backups. The most obvious situation that comes to mind is that it is possible to back up a cold database (a ...

Choosing the best Oracle backup strategy can be a difficult decision. Oracle data backup choices include user-managed backups, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and import/export backups. Depending on ...

Quest Software has unveiled Quest Backup Reporter for Oracle, a desktop solution that offers DBAs a dashboard view of all of the Oracle backups across the enterprise that they are managing and also ...

Last week Oracle and Amazon Web Services held a webinar to outline how Oracle works on Amazon’s EC2, including database backups to the Cloud. Running Oracle on EC2 is not too thrilling, though it’s ...