6 Making Backups with RMAN: Advanced Topics

This chapter describes how to use RMAN to make backups. This chapter contains these topics:

• Configuring and Allocating Channels for Use in Backups

• Making Split Mirror Backups with RMAN

• Backing Up Backup Sets with RMAN

• Backing Up Existing Image Copy Backups with RMAN

• RMAN Encrypted Backups

• Restarting and Optimizing RMAN Backups

• Validating Backups with RMAN

• RMAN Backup Examples