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Basic concept, logical backups _supplement_ physical backups.
Oracle specifically recommends not being dependent on logical backups. Physical backups protect you from hardware failures and allow you to recover transactions created after your backups were taken. Where do you think database corruption comes from? Some disk or controller or network goes blooey!
jg
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