Oracle Database 10g Backup & Recovery (ISBN 0072263172) Book Reviews 1-8 Sorted By Most Recent, at VeryWellSaid.com

A good option to buy

RMAN is the present and the future of Oracle solution for backup.
It has a simple concept, but a great variety of commands, by this way, as a solution for all the complexity inside the RMAN solution, Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup & Recovery come as a special "friend" to help us discovering all posibilities inside Oracle RMAN software.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-20 05:44:40 EST)

08-14-07

(NA)

Makes backup & recovery ezeee

I had no idea about backup and recovery but after reading this book and trying out the examples, I can say with confidence I can recover a RMAN backed database. Written extremly well!!! One of the good technical boooks I have read....

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-09-04 18:56:06 EST)

06-30-07

(NA)

Worth it's weight in Gold!

Backup and Recovery is one of the most critical tasks that a DBA has to perform. Sadly, it is also one of the most misunderstood. RMAN should be the tool of choice for backup and recovery for Oracle databases. There is so much that can be done with RMAN.

What Robert and Matthew do is break it down piece by piece. There is a great intro and they build on that in subsequent chapters. If you want to link RMAN directly with your backup software (i.e. Veritas, EMC, Legato, etc..) then the authors show you how. I used the Veritas piece to link RMAN in and it worked flawlessly. They go over the latest features including block changing files (for faster incremental backups), merging level 1 and level 0 backups (for faster recoveries without the overhead of backing up the whole database), and even cover what the flash recovery area is and how to use it. There is so much great material packed in this book. Yeah, you can try and read Oracle's docs, but rather than just show you how to do it, the authors also teach you why to do it.

You can read this book chronologically or use it as a reference. The authors writing style make this book a great joy to read. They also include a lot of great examples in case you like to learn by seeing.

I would highly recommend this book if you are an Oracle DBA, whether you use RMAN or not. Afterall, RMAN is what you should be using :).

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-08-14 19:55:39 EST)

06-19-07

(NA)

Must have backup/recovery book

We had to install and configure Oracle10g 4 node RAC with ASM+FLASHBACK and implement backup/recovery procedures using RMAN and Veritas Netbackup. This book covers everything I need to know in depth.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-04 15:59:28 EST)

05-07-07

1\1

A very good book on RMAN

I had bought his book on Oracle 9i RMAN Backup and Recovery...
And very much impressed with the technical details and examples given in the book... Same way, the book on 10g also excels in technical depth and details...

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-06-20 07:15:01 EST)

02-03-07

2\3

Great book

I recently picked up this book, and so far I have found it to be the most complete reference I've seen. It is very well written with lots of examples. I reported a minor problem in the text to the author, and he responded immediately. I will be carrying this book with me everywhere.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-05-07 23:54:29 EST)

02-02-07

1\2

Great book

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-11 10:36:32 EST)

01-15-07

(NA)

Some good RMAN examples