HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Oracle - Manual (Page 33)

2.17 Recovery Manager and Third-Party Backup Tools
Recovery Manager 3.0.3/3.0.4 for Oracle User’s Guide
Recovery Manager saves an ASCII control file and a binary control file for each created virtual
copy in its repository. After a rollback, you may need to restore the control file in order to
perform database recovery.
2.10 Recovery Manager and Third-Party Backup Tools
3PAR Recovery Manager integrates 3PAR Virtual Copy with Veritas NetBackup (NBU) and/or
Oracle RMAN to perform off-host backup. Off-host backups can dramatically reduce
performance impact on the database host and minimize database down time or database in
backup mode during backup.
Recovery Manager creates a virtual copy (snapshot) of the database, mounts it to the backup
host, then performs backup of the virtual copy.
Recovery Manager supports online(hot), offline(cold), datafile, or archive log backups.
■ Online backup - A database backup while it is OPEN.
■ Offline backup - A database backup while it is CLOSED.
■ Datafile backup - A backup of datafiles only.
■ Archive log backup - A backup of archive logs only.
Recovery Manager can be configured to perform either NBU (user-managed) backup or Oracle
RMAN backup (See 4.9 Recovery Manager Configuration Files on page 4.28 for details).