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I have never tried to burn my servers to ash, but I usually try to put the rman catalog on a different server than the ones that it is backing up. You also need to backup the catalog, which I do w/ a nightly export.
>From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RMAN disaster recovery
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 06:25:23 -0800
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>I am wondering how RMAN would work for disaster recovery. Our manager's
>statement is "assume your server is reduced to a pile of ash. Now take your
>backup tape and build me a new system on a loaner from the vendor." I am
>trying to figure how that would work with RMAN. We are still at the stage
>of
>just using RMAN to create disk copies, and we are on Compaq Tru64 UNIX. He
>wants us to demonstrate that level of recoverability, but I'm not sure how
>that would work. I think we could assume that we have a database to load
>the
>RMAN catalog from an export.
> One issue would be whether the disk location of the RMAN files might
>be different, and I'm not sure how to get RMAN to accept a different
>location. A more minor issue is if the database file locations are
>different, but I think that is pretty well documented.
> Has anyone else tried this? What am I overlooking? Any ideas will be
>appreciated.
>Dennis Williams
>DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
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