Re: Verdict on RMAN?

Ronald,
By backup do you mean a non-RMAN backup? If so, I would be interested in the reasoning behind the comment.

Regards,
Anthony Hogan

Ronald wrote:
>
> "Jake" <oraclenews_at_heyjay.com> wrote in message news:<zPecnXCqo5EL2zmjXTWc-g_at_speakeasy.net>...
> > In 2000 and 2001 (via Google archives) there were some lengthy threads about
> > RMAN, and it seemed the jury was undecided. I'm wondering which way (if
> > any) the news group regulars (and non regulars) have leaned? Scripts or
> > RMAN? RMAN with a Catalog or without?
> >
> > I'm comfortable with scripts (and played with early RMAN, and was left
> > wanting). But the product is 3+ years old and is (probably) better.
>
> I would go for rman and use that with a catalog. It works very well
> with tsm but if such infrastructure is not present I would still use
> it for disk backups. Some customers prefer scripts because they say
> their dba's don't know about rman. In that case I advice to do some
> education on the topic. Things like database cloning works very fine
> using rman.
> Don't forget the first rule: backup when you make physical changes to
> your database. It makes recovery easier.
>
> Ronald.
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Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 07:06:03 CDT