RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog

Hemant,

Well, I guess that's my point. In my view, using Rman to accomplish this "requirement" by your management is the wrong selection. If they have this kind of a requirement, then you need another solution - like maybe a flat table dump of all tables within your database.

Good Luck

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:35 AM To: thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog

If I have to restore a 9i Database, 5 years from now, I would need the Hardware and OS that supports it and also the 9i ORACLE_HOME. My organisations's backup strategies do try to consider OS and Oracle versions but cannot guarantee hardware availability !

Hemant
At 11:26 PM Wednesday, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
>Hemant,
>
>You have to admit that this may never be available. Think about it.
>You will be migrating to new releases about 4 times between now and 5
>years from now. Rman version 13x would probably choke and puke anyway
>when it tried to restore the version 9i controlfile! :)
>
>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:10 AM
>To: thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us
>Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Subject: RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog
>
>
>
>What I would like to be able to do is ... 5 years from now, restore
>_todays_ backup. Wouldn't I be able to use [then, in 2009], SET UNTIL
>"13-OCT-04" and RESTORE CONTROLFILE ?
>
>The "contradiction" I saw was in the Support Analyst's first point " ..
>its too far away" and then second point "there's no limit with SET
>UNTIL ...".
>
>Hemant

Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital                

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