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.