For maximum administrative flexibility, you can work directly with Oracle8 to perform a variety of database maintenance tasks. You can view or manipulate database objects, even copy data between databases. Various applications run on this framework performing comprehensive systems management capabilities. Enterprise Manager 1.4 supports the new scalability features of Oracle8 such as partitioning, queuing, password management, and server managed backup and recovery. This allows DBAs to specify what they want to do, rather than how it needs to be done.
Time is critical in a recovery situation, where every minute of down time can be very expensive.
OEM improves the availability of the data in a recovery situation by enabling the DBA to complete recovery sooner. Recovery Manager supports secure management of backups by using either a recovery catalog or a control file. In addition, backups can be created quickly and easily with OEM s Backup Manager. Those backups can be scheduled to run at off-hours of the day using OEM s job scheduling capability. In addition, Oracle8 Backup Manager also has support for Oracle7 type database backups.