Recovery Manager Changes

RMAN has been improved to reduce the recovery time for a tablespace or the entire database using incrementally updated backups. These incremental backups can be applied to an image copy of a datafile to significantly reduce the amount of time needed to recover the datafile in case of a media failure. RMAN also provides a number of other enhancements, making it easier to back up part of the database or the entire database. You can create image copies for the entire database with just one command instead of one command for each tablespace. RMAN supports binary compression of backup sets not only to save disk space in the flash recovery area but also to potentially reduce the amount of time needed to perform the backup. The flash recovery are....