RMAN is Oracle's flagship backup and recovery tool, but did you know
it's also an effective database duplication tool? Oracle RMAN Database
Duplication is a deep dive into RMAN's duplication feature set, showing
how RMAN can make it so much easier for you as a database administrator
to satisfy the many requests from developers and testers for database
copies and refreshes for use in their work. You'll learn to make and
refresh duplicate databases with a single command, and of course you can
automate and schedule that command so that developers and testers are
supplied with regular, known good databases without any manual
intervention on your part.
Fast and easy provisioning of databases for developers and testers is a
driving force in the move to cloud computing and virtualization. RMAN's
robust database duplication feature set plays right into this growing
need for ease of provisioning, enabling easy duplication of known-good
databases on demand, across operating systems such as between Linux and
Solaris, and even across storage environments such as when duplicating
from a RAC/ASM environment to a single-node instance using regular file
system storage. Oracle RMAN Database Duplication is your thorough
guide to providing amazing business value to your organization by way of
fast and easy provisioning of database duplicates in service of
development and testing projects.
