10 Managing the Recovery Catalog

This chapter describes how to manage an RMAN recovery catalog, which holds RMAN repository data for one or more databases in a separate database schema, in addition to using the control files of the databases.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Creating a Recovery Catalog

• Managing Target Database Records in the Recovery Catalog

• Resynchronizing the Recovery Catalog

• Managing the Control File When You Use a Recovery Catalog

• Backing Up and Recovering the Recovery Catalog

• Exporting and Importing the Recovery Catalog

• Increasing Availability of the Recovery Catalog

• Querying Recovery Catalog Views

• Determining the Schema Version of the Recovery Catalog

• Upgrading the Recovery Catalog

• Dropping the Recovery Catalog

  
  

  See Also: Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics to learn how to manage the RMAN repository as stored in the control file, without a recovery catalog