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.
