RMAN & RAID

[lynn814]

I have a partitioned hard disk on which I already have a database and wanted to create another database for the RMAN recovery catalog.
I read that you can't have the RMAN database on the same disk as the main database.
However, since this is a test environment, I wanted to know if it is possible to still have 2 databases on the same partitioned disk that uses RAID.
How does RAID fit into this???

Regards
Lynn

[csvenkata]

Hi,
First tell me whether ur database is in RAID or not?
If it is in RAID, what level?

If it is not then u can implement the RMAN catalog database to take the backup. but u can't crash the disk to test the recovery.

U can mail me at csvenkata@yahoo.co.uk for more informations.

[pando]

Well i think it´s pretty obvious why you should not have RMAN in same disk. Imagine that disks fails how are you gonna use RMAN... to recover the database

[marist89]

Originally posted by pando
Well i think it´s pretty obvious why you should not have RMAN in same disk. Imagine that disks fails how are you gonna use RMAN... to recover the database

Exactly. If this is a development/test environment, knock yourself out. In a production environment, I like to put the RMAN recovery catalog on it's own machine, even if it is a small machine with little redundancy.