hi,
i want to setup rman on 8i and 9i for performing backup and recovery.

can someone how to start with and what dows the following term means:

CONNECT CATALOG rman/cat_pwd@cat_str

when i issue this command it give no user is there and when i change it to

CONNECT CATALOG sys/password@cat_str it gives connect but no recovery catalague installed.

how should i do it.

please help

thanks