Oracle experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda have come together in this book to show you the power of Recovery Manager, or RMAN, which is Oracle's backup and recovery tool of choice. Oracle RMAN Recipes helps you take advantage of all that RMAN has to offer by providing easy-to-understand solutions to business-critical backup and recovery operations. This handy guide: Demystifies the steps required to protect your business data; Provides ready-made and step-by-step solutions to simple and complex backup, restore, and recovery operations; Is task-oriented, making it easy for you to find the solution to pressing backup and recovery problems; Respects your time by providing example-based solutions, not endless reading material.