Oracle's backup and recovery tool is called Recovery Manager, or RMAN for short. It's one tool that every database administrator absolutely must know, and know well, because to lose a critical database can be a job-ending event. RMAN Recipes is a task-oriented book providing ready-made and example-based solutions to common (and some not-so-common) backup and recovery operations. The authors respect their reader's time. When the pressure's on, database administrators don't have time for long discussions of theory. They need solutions, and right now. RMAN Recipes delivers, getting right to the point with quick- and easy-to-read, step-by-step solutions that database administrators can implement with confidence.
Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle database administrator who holds the Oracle Certified Professional designation and the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator certification. He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America's national headquarters in Los Colinas, Texas. Alapati has been dealing with databases for a long time, including the Ingres RDBMS in the mid-1980s. He is also well-versed in the Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and IBM DB2 database management systems.