Backing up an Oracle Data Guard environment

Recovery Catalog View Corresponding V$ View Catalog View Describes ...
RC_OFFLINE_RANGE
V$OFFLINE_RANGE
Offline ranges for datafiles
RC_PROXY_ARCHIVEDLOG
V$PROXY_ARCHIVEDLOG
Archived log backups taken
with the proxy copy
functionality
RC_PROXY_CONTROLFILE
V$PROXY_DATAFILE
Control file backups taken with
the proxy copy functionality
RC_PROXY_DATAFILE
V$PROXY_DATAFILE
Datafile backups that were
taken using the proxy copy
functionality
RC_REDO_LOG
V$LOG and V$LOGFILE
Online redo logs for all
incarnations of the database
since the last catalog
resynchronization
RC_REDO_THREAD
V$THREAD
All redo threads for all
incarnations of the database
since the last catalog
resynchronization
RC_RESYNC
n/a Recovery catalog
resynchronizations
RC_RMAN_CONFIGURATION
V$RMAN_CONFIGURATION
RMAN configuration settings
RC_RMAN_STATUS
V$RMAN_STATUS
Historical status information
about RMAN operations.
RC_STORED_SCRIPT
n/a Names of scripts stored in the
recovery catalog
RC_STORED_SCRIPT_LINE
n/a Contents of the scripts stored in
the recovery catalog
RC_TABLESPACE
V$TABLESPACE
All tablespaces registered in
the recovery catalog, all
dropped tablespaces, and
tablespaces that belong to old
incarnation
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