RMAN is a feature. Hence, it does not need a separate installation.
Recovery Appliance
Recovery Appliance is the common name for the cloud-scale Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance.
Recovery Appliance reduces data loss and backup overhead.
Recovery Appliance reduces data loss with the following technologies
- Real time redo transport: redo changes are continously transferred from the SGA of a (protected) database to a Recovery Appliance)
- Replication to remote Recovery Appliances
- Automated tape backups made by the centralized Recovery Appliance
- End-to-End database block validation
Recovery Appliance scales to many (I mean: many) databases.
Recovery Appliance is integrated with RMAN.
Protection policy
A protection policy defines a recovery window goal.
These protection policies can the individually be assigned to the databases in an organization.
Backup history
RMAN maintains a repository of historical backup
metadata in the control file of every
database that it backs up.
If desired, this history can also be stored in a recovery catalog in another database.