Oracle RMAN Database Duplication Author:Darl Kuhn 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 da... more »tabase 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. What you’ll learnAutomate complex database duplication tasksDuplicate active databases on demandCreate duplicates from RMAN backupsConfigure duplicates for maximum performanceAutomate the creation of standby databasesDuplicate from RAC to non-RAC and vice versaDuplicate container and pluggable databasesDuplicate databases across platformsWho this book is for Oracle RMAN Database Duplication is aimed at database administrators burdened with too many requests for database copies for reporting, testing, development, and similar purposes. The book shows how fast and easy it becomes to satisfy such requests using RMAN?s duplication feature set.« less