Recovery Manager (RMAN) is an Oracle utility that manages backup and recovery operations, creating BACKUPS of database files (DATAFILES, control files, and archived redo log files) and restoring or recovering a database from backups. Recovery Manager maintains a repository called the recovery catalog, which contains information about backup files and archived log files. Recovery Manager uses the recovery catalog to automate both restore operations and media recovery.

The recovery catalog contains:
•Information about backups of datafiles and archive logs
•Information about datafile copies
•Information about archived redo logs and copies of them
•Information about the physical schema of the TARGET database
•Named SEQUENCES of statements called stored SCRIPTS

Recovery Manager (RMAN) is an Oracle utility that manages backup and recovery operations, creating backups of database files (datafiles, control files, and archived redo log files) and restoring or recovering a database from backups. Recovery Manager maintains a repository called the recovery catalog, which contains information about backup files and archived log files. Recovery Manager uses the recovery catalog to automate both restore operations and media recovery.

The recovery catalog contains:
•Information about backups of datafiles and archive logs
•Information about datafile copies
•Information about archived redo logs and copies of them
•Information about the physical schema of the target database
•Named sequences of statements called stored scripts