Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) enables you to perform the different types of backups that are required by your backup strategy. This section discusses creating a whole database backup.
You can also individually back up data files, control files, and archived redo log files. You can use some advanced RMAN features such as encrypting backups. For more information about these topics, see Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide.
See Also:
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide for information about backing up multitenant conainer databases (CDBs) and pluggable databases (PDBs)
This section contains the following topics: