Re: space savings using rman

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> To the O/P: I'm running incrementals to disk. I would like to have at
> least a week of backups on disk (as I don't trust and don't have
> access to the backup procedure of the sys admin). However, I can't
> have 7 full backups online, so I considered switching to incremental.
> In this particular database less than 10 tables change, the rest is
> more or less static. My backup was reduced to one third of the
> original size.
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

I am currently working on an application that is similar in that almost all of the data volume is static. Take a serious look at using read-only tablespaces.

Back them up once and forget them.

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