Re: Moving an RMAN backup

That's the feeling I got from the manuals, too bad, makes the product sorta rigid

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3d83a906_at_dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> Without wishing to be too blunt about it (in case I'm wrong!), but I'll
 bet
> my bottom dollar that there is no way to move backup sets until 9i (where
> you can backup a backup set with a 'delete input' option -and as we all
> know, a copy, followed by a delete, is in effect a move).
>
> And there is no way, even in 9i, that you can make RMAN aware of the
> existence of backup sets in anything other than the location it knows it
> placed them originally.
>
> The catalog command is of use only in making RMAN aware of backups *it*
> didn't take, but *you* did before deciding to use RMAN.
>
> Another reason why I tend to recommend backing up everything to one place
 on
> a disk, and using other tools to 'move' them to other directories or tape
> later. That way, you simply restore to the agreed 'original holding area',
> and RMAN will be kept happy.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
> "Jake" <me_at_heyjay.com> wrote in message
> news:alumq5$3bi$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> > Hola,
> >
> > Per 8.1.7.0.0, Is there anyway to update the catalog, to indicate that
 an
> > RMAN backup has moved to a different directory? I've been looking thru
 all
> > the doc, and I can see how you can update/manage the catalog with
 respect
 to
> > image copies (and exports). But what if I need to move the RMAN backup
> > files somewhere else? How do I update the catalog? Something ala:
> >
> > alter catalog rename backupfile 'old_path_to_file' to 'new_location'
> >
> > Thanks (as always)
> > Jake
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Sep 15 2002 - 08:48:30 CDT