a complete image of a single datafile

a direct copy of the selected input file that contains no header or trailer blocks

an exact copy of a single datafile, archived redo log file, or control file

A Backup utility operation that creates a new Files--11 On-Disk Structure on the output disk and copies an entire volume; the image backup is a logical duplicate of the contents of the disk.

An exact reproduction of all or part of a table space. The DB2 COPY utility can make full image copies (to copy the entire table space) or incremental image copies (to copy only those pages modified since the last image copy).

A bit-for-bit copy of a single datafile, archived redo log file, or control file that is: Usable as-is to perform recovery (unlike a backup set, which uses unused block compression and is in an RMAN-specific format) Generated with the RMAN BACKUP AS COPY command, an operating system command such as the UNIX cp, or by the Oracle archiver process

Image File Image frequency