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Backup and Restore

To ensure that you can make a full recovery from media failures, you should perform regular backups of the following:

Application Server and Infrastructure Oracle Homes

You should perform regular backups of all files in the Oracle home of each application server and infrastructure installation in your enterprise using your preferred method of filesystem backup.

Oracle Internet Directory

Oracle Internet Directory offers command-line tools for backing up and restoring the Oracle Internet Directory schema and subtree.

See Also:

Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide for information on backing up and restoring Oracle Internet Directory

Metadata Repository

The metadata repository is an Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Database that you can back up and restore using several different tools and operating system commands.

See Also:

Oracle9i Backup and Recovery Concepts for an introduction to Oracle9i backup and recovery strategies and tools

Customer Databases

You should perform regular backups of each customer database using the tools available for that particular version of the database.