Oracle RMAN Interview Question:

Tell me atleast 6 advantages of RMAN backups compare to traditional hot backups?

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RMAN has the following advantages over Traditional backups:

1. Ability to perform INCREMENTAL backups
2. Ability to Recover one block of datafile
3. Ability to automatically backup CONTROLFILE and SPFILE
4. Ability to delete the older ARCHIVE REDOLOG files, with the new one's automatically.
5. Ability to perform backup and restore with parallelism.
6. Ability to report the files needed for the backup.
7. Ability to RESTART the failed backup, without starting from beginning.
8. Much faster when compared to other TRADITIONAL backup strategies.
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