Nick Stachniak, an Oracle DBA for over 25 years, joins Stephen Manley and W. Curtis Preston on this episode to take a deeper dive into Oracle backups. We discuss the Phoenix Backup Store and how it helps customers create a local cache of their Oracle backup before it is deduplicated and backed up to the cloud. Then we dive deeper into the Oracle RMAN Image Copy, comparing and contrasting it to Oracle RMAN SBT format. Nick explains how an RMAN image copy gives you all the benefits of the old SBT format, while giving several new advantages.