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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: RMAN - To Catalog or not to catalog, that is the question
Fuad, I must agree, it was garbage/crap in early 8 days, 8i relatively
better and in 9i it just rulz :).
Still hoping to mess with it in the 10g world late summer.
joe
original message below
just finished my 1.6tb restore this morning and thats when i realised boy rman is good. rman has a lot of good features inclusding skipping free blocks which makes backups much faster . I personally believe that setting up a cataslog is good for a couple of reasons. 1. you can get all sorts of reports (management always likes reports). 2. if you have mutiple databases user it.
> We actually have our rman catalog on the same server as the tape
management server . since in a dr you need to restore a tape management
server. yuo will resotr the rman catalog . plus incase you lose the
catalgo you can resync fromt eh control files of the database.
Rman has a lot of good block checking features for hotbackups,cold
backups and archvielogs which are good. I've previously before rman had
issues with forgetting to add a datafile and then regretting that on a
restore. rman does all that for you.
rman has matured a lot over the years .
it might not be perfect but its still a good solution.
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