Re: Incrementally Updated Backups (RMAN)

From: Wayne Smith <wts_at_maine.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:45:02 -0500
Message-ID: <CAEgY-F55gsr_Rv8NK-qs6tp_pxEM4y7k1h69qda7RF4pkDfJ_g_at_mail.gmail.com>

You sort of mentioned it in your opening remarks, Kumar ... but here are a three pitfalls:

• If your backup system is expiring files independently from RMAN, you can be left with useless backups.
• If your backup system is vaulting just some of the backups, then the vault may not have all the pieces you need for a restore.
• If your backup system never expires files, then you may have backups that are never discarded. An example is taking a database out of service, but leaving/forgetting its backups. I suppose an "open database resetlogs" would have rman forget backups? I don't know the answer to this question.

Cheers, Wayne

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