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Oracle RMAN Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)

Introduction Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) is an Oracle RMAN recovery technique used to recover a database to a specific point in time, SCN, or log sequence. It is particularly useful when unwanted changes, accidental data deletion, or logical corruption occurs and the database needs to be restored to a known consistent state before the incident. In this article, we will demonstrate how to perform an RMAN Point-in-Time Recovery using database backups, incremental backups, archived redo logs, and the control file. We will restore the database to a specific point in time and verify the database after recovery. PITR Scenario For this demonstration, we have an Oracle database named CDBORCL . We will first take an RMAN Level 0 backup followed by Level 1 incremental backups, archived redo log backups, and control file backups. After taking the required backups, we will perform additional INSERT and UPDATE operations on a sample table. We will then identify a specific recovery point...