Re: How popular is RMAN for backup?

> Not sure why this is a prevalent opinion. RMAN users/admin guide is
> pretty explicit. And there *is* always Metalink!
>

The ordinary syntax examples you give are fine, it's the need to explicitly allocate channels, name logfiles (msglogs), set up catalogs (rcvcat), register databases and make multiple connections (one to the catalog, one to the target) that confuses people. I'm not saying that it's completely impenitrable and there is fairly good support available as you point out, it's just that, for me at least, it stands out like a sore thumb amongst the other utilities as being awkward to use and defiantly obscure. I feel fairly confident I could use the utility given a few manuals and metalink to hand, it's just that if one of the production instances falls over I'd rather not be thumbing through manuals if I could help it.

Mick Rice. Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 02:54:50 CDT