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Jared
Okay, I'll bite. What do you mean about a "separate project for verifying backups". It reminds me of the ending to the movie "Indiana Jones" - "we have a team of top experts working on that", you know, the scene where they're packing the ark away in an enormous warehouse.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:19 PM
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auxi
> I would be interested how other sites that rely on RMAN handle this
issue.
I for one, don't use RMAN for that. It's too much work.
There's a separate project for verifying backups.
The databases I'm called on to duplicate have lately been 400-500 gigs, more than I want to pull from tape unless absolutely necesssary.
It's much faster to plug two servers into a gigabit switch and copy the files across a private network at approx 100 gigabytes per hour.
Jared
DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
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08/05/2003 02:59 PM
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> cc: Subject: RE: URGENT: Trying to duplicate database from coldbackup - auxi
Robert - What I've done over the years is tie the creation of test
databases
to backup verification. The old issue of how can you trust your backups
unless you've done a recovery. It has seemed that I get a request to build
a
test database at about the right interval to periodically verify the
backup.
It is nice to say that I would just periodically verify the backups, but
like most DBAs, there is always a more pressing task.
With RMAN, I assumed that I would continue this practice. It has been a pain, but I ended up with a method that works. The biggest problem is that when the test database is recovered, it initially has the same name as the production database, then I change the name.
I would be interested how other sites that rely on RMAN handle this
issue.
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