Monday, 17 November 2025

Reducing RPO and Managing Recovery Time for Oracle Bigfile Tablespaces

 Managing Oracle Bigfile Tablespaces can seem daunting when it comes to backup and recovery. With a single datafile potentially exceeding hundreds of terabytes, restoring after corruption or failure may appear time-consuming. However, modern Oracle features like RMAN incremental backups, block change tracking, ASM striping, and flashback technologies allow DBAs to reduce both Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) efficiently.