Preface

This preface contains these topics:

Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation
Conventions

Audience

This book is intended for system administrators and database administrators who perform backup and restore operations. To use this document, you need to be familiar with the operating system environment on which you plan to use Oracle Secure Backup. To perform Oracle database backup and restore operations, you should also be familiar with Oracle backup and recovery concepts, including Recovery Manager (RMAN).

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documentation

For more information about using Oracle Secure Backup, see the following Oracle resources:

Oracle Secure Backup Installation Guide

This book explains how to stage and install Oracle Secure Backup.
Oracle Secure Backup Migration Guide

This book explains how to migrate from Reliaty Backup to Oracle Secure Backup. It also explains how to migrate to Oracle Secure Backup from versions of Legato Storage Manager and Legato Single Server Version previously bundled with Oracle Database.
Oracle Secure Backup Reference

This book describes the Oracle Secure Backup command-line interface.

For more information about database backup and recovery, including the Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility, see the following Oracle resources:

Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics

This book provides an overview of backup and recovery and discusses backup and recovery strategies. It provides instructions for basic backup and recovery of your database using Recovery Manager (RMAN).
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide

This guide covers more advanced database backup and recovery topics, including performing user-managed backup and recovery.

The Oracle Secure Backup product site is located at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/secure-backup

The Oracle Secure Backup download site is located at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
Bold	Bold typeface indicates components of the Web tool interface, such as buttons, boxes, lists, page names and page subdivisions. Bold typeface also indicates terms that are defined in the text or terms that appear in a glossary, or both.
italic	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis. Italics also indicates variables or placeholders for which you substitute an appropriate value.
`courier`	Courier typeface indicates command line entries, system output display, options and arguments that you enter, executables, filenames, and directory names. When the syntax for a command is given, a bullet offsets the minimal abbreviation for the command, as in `chd•ev`.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional items from which you can choose one or none.
{}	Required items for which you need to select one of the enclosed values. Each value is separated by a \|.
\|	A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter one of the options.
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.