RMAN Survey

[Raminder]

It was me not Omegamark who posted the last one Sambavan.
Thanks for your guidance, though.
I feel I would be more in Control if I backed up on my own instead of using RMAN.



[Edited by Raminder on 09-25-2001 at 11:44 AM]

[Raminder]

Originally posted by Sambavan:

Since I don't personally prefer to have an instance just dedicated for the backup, what I do is create catalog on two of my production instance and then do a cris-cross backup. That way, I'ld be loosing my backup only if my both the servers were to go down

What happens to the poor ones with only one machine. Do you mean to say they should not use RMAN ?

[sambavan]

Raminder, thanx for pointing the "post note" mistake. RMAN is a better tool and you would get to know the best of it when you do a recovery. My advice would be to create two test instances and try out on them. There are sample scripts under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo *.rcv *.sh which you can make use to start with.

My thanks to FARRUKH for pointing out the mistake in the directory location. Earlier it was $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin. Made the correction now.


Sam

[Edited by sambavan on 09-25-2001 at 12:49 PM]

[sambavan]

Originally posted by Raminder
Originally posted by Sambavan:

Since I don't personally prefer to have an instance just dedicated for the backup, what I do is create catalog on two of my production instance and then do a cris-cross backup. That way, I'ld be loosing my backup only if my both the servers were to go down

What happens to the poor ones with only one machine. Do you mean to say they should not use RMAN ?

Then you are taking the risk!!! I feel sorry for those poor soles.

Sam

[FARRUKH]

RMAN scripts "*.rcv" are under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo directory.

Cheers!

Farrukh

[sonofsita]

i am finding it easy to handle backups when I use rman with legato and with veritas backup exec. I criscrossed the catalog as I have two servers. if you do not have catalog also, if your version is 816 and above you have some new commands that help recover.look into them.Rman helps a lot.
the way it copies the written blocks helps reduce the time and space.