Re: Looking for Recommendation on Backup Software that works well with Oracle in Hot Backup Mode

"Norman Dunbar" <ndunbar_at_lynxfinancialsystems.co.uk> wrote in message news:F43E6BAE5BB5D411A44C00805FBE740D9E3584_at_apps.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> Howard,
>
> have they fixed the 'problem' in using RMAN if one or more of your
> instances are clones of another - because, I led to believe on the B&R
> course, that they have the same 'instance number' or unique (!)
> identifier or whatever - something from the control file.
>
> I have quite a few copies/clones (I built them from a cold backup and a
> controlfile trace of another instance) and this was one reason why we
> didn't go the RMAN route. (Another was the syntax !)
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>

Now on my B&R course ( a while back) the instructor couldn't get RMAN working correctly. If he couldn't do it I decided that life was too short.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK