Preface

This preface contains the following topics:

Audience

Backup and Recovery User's Guide is intended for database administrators who perform the following tasks:

Back up, restore, and recover Oracle databases
Perform maintenance on backups of database files
Transfer data between a file system and ASM or between platforms when installing Oracle Database

To use this document, you must know the following:

Relational database concepts and basic database administration as described in Oracle Database Concepts and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
The operating system environment under which you run the database

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The following chapters have been relocated:

Chapter 24: "Creating Transportable Tablespace Sets." You can reference this material in Oracle Database Administrator's Guide.
Chapter 26: "Performing ASM Data Migration." This information is now included in the Database Storage Administrator's Guide.

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