Why you should use Oracle RMAN for backups and recovery

• You can take advantage of the powerful Data Recovery Advisor feature, which enables
  you to easily diagnose and repair data failures and corruption
• There are simpler backup and recovery commands
• It automatically manages the backup files without DBA intervention
• It automatically deletes unnecessary backup datafiles and archived redo log files both
  from disk and tape
• It provides you with detailed reporting of backup actions
• It provides considerable help in duplicating a database or creating a standby database
• It lets you test whether you can recover your database, without actually restoring data
• It lets you verify that available backups are usable for recovery
• It lets you make incremental backups, which isn’t possible by any other means of
  backup
• It lets you perform database duplication without backups by using the network-enabled database duplication feature, also known as active duplication
• It automatically detects corrupt data blocks during backups, with the corruption rele-vant information recorded in the V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION view
• When only a few data blocks are corrupted, you can recover at the data block level,
  instead of recovering an entire datafile
• You can take advantage of the unused block compression feature, wherein RMAN skips
  unused data blocks during a backup
• Only RMAN provides the ability to perform encrypted backups
• You can use RMAN with a variety of third-party storage systems
• You can use a powerful yet easy-to-use scripting language, which lets you write custom
  backup and recovery scripts quickly