Oh, I think it took us years to get rid of recommendations in MOS notes saying before this or that change you must take an offline backup. These recommendations dated back to times where not almost everybody was using RMAN for online backups. But the times have changed. Still, there are situations where the “Offline Backup” word can be mentioned. And in this blog post I will describe a Fallback Strategy: Partial Offline Backup.
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This method will only protect you against failure during an upgrade.
First of all, Offline Backup sounds really brutal and old-fashioned. …
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It’s time for the next Office Hours session with the Upgrade Development Team. The Upgrade and Migration Office Hours on April 19, 2018 features the topic “Fallback Strategies“. Roy will prepare a short slide intro. And afterwards we’ll happily take your questions.
Since Oracle Database 12.2 an important feature works now for pluggable databases as a Fallback Strategy: Flashback Pluggable Database in Oracle 12.2. This was missing in Oracle Database 12.1.
Actually having the possibility to flashback a pluggable database without effecting the other PDBs is really important. Did you ever want to try out what happens if you 
