What is the best tool for oracle database backup ?

Rman tool is the best for Backup

Oracle date backup choices include user-managed backups, Oracle Recovery Manager and import/export backups. Depending on your needs and your budget, all three Oracle backup strategies could be suitable for your environment.

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

RMAN

Recovry Manager (RMAN) is best tools for physical backup

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Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): a command-line is the Oracle-preferred method for efficiently backing up and recovering Oracle Database. RMAN is designed to work intimately with the server, providing block-level corruption detection during backup and recovery. RMAN optimizes performance and space consumption during backup with file multiplexing and backup set compression, and integrates with leading tape and storage media products with the supplied Media Management Library.

Oracle Data Pump : Physical backups can be supplemented by using the Oracle Data Pump (export/import) utilities to make logical backups of data. Logical backups store information about the schema objects created for a database. Oracle Data Pump loads data and metadata into a set of operating system files that can be imported on the same system or moved to another system and imported there.

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Hi ,

Generally , oracle internal rman tool used for oracle database backup. 

i recommend EMC networker 9.1 which have great features for oracle database backup using rman, you can take different types of backups full, incremental, cumulative. 

we can able to do point in time recovery even. done so many successful refresh activities with emc networker.

Regards,

inayath