Re: Need Suggestion for RMAN

From: Deepak Thapliyal <deepakthapliyal_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:58:56 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B17C4.20011022100024@fatcity.com>

venkat, if you run in nocatalog mode, there are many things that you cannot do as compared to catalog mode. refer to the initial lists of the Oracle RMAN USer's Guide .. and it explicitly lists *all* the things that you cannot do if you are running rman in nocatalog mode

so basically, you run in catalog mode to be doubly safe .. to put it in a nutshell

hth
Deepak
--- "C.S.Venkata Subramanian" <csvenkata_at_lycos.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
> I need some suggestions for RMAN. For a quite
> sometime I have seen numerous mails regarding RMAN.
>
> We have 2 Production Databases located at different
> sites. We use RMAN to backup the databases. Daily
> incremental backups(Archivelogs,
> ControlFiles,parameter files, password file) Weekly
> Full backup(Datafiles,Archivelogs,
> ControlFiles,parameter files, password file). the
> backup are successfully tested in a development m/c
> and till date we didn't face any probs till date.
> But we are not using "Catalog Database" for storing
> the information. Instead we are using the target
> database's control file. We have also stimulated the
> recoveries based on the above.
>
> I want to know whether it is "mandatory" or
> "advisble" to use RMAN with or without a catalog
> database.
>
> Any views, suggestions are welcome.
>
> TIA
>
> Venkat
>
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