Re: RMAN backup

Tim, i'd be glad to hear someone else verify your statement as my understanding is the the only difference between full and level 0 is that full cannot be used as part of an incremental strategy, other than that they both back up the "ever used" blocks.

Anyone else care to jump in on this one?

joe

Tim Gorman wrote:

>How about switching to incremental (from "full") backups? Even if all you
>do are level-0 backups?
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>My understanding of the difference between a "full" and a "level-0" backup
>(besides the obvious impact on any subsequent level-n incremental backups)
>is that level-0 backups only back up database blocks that are currently in
>use, as opposed to "full" backups which back up all database blocks which
>have ever been used (i.e. no longer "unformatted").
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>>Hello All,
>>
>>Is resizing the datafiles the only way of reducing the size of an RMAN
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>full
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>>backup? Oracle Version 8.0.6. We take RMAN hot backups to disk, and the
>>size of the backup has grown considerably. There's one large table which
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>we
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>>were considering truncating. But looks like that would not reduce the size
>>of the backup. Dropping the table will call for an production outage. I
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>am
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>>considering moving the table to another tablespace, and dropping the
>>existing one. Any ideas?
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>>Thanks
>>Raj
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