Re: Benefits of RMAN

From: Romeo Olympia <rolympia_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 26 Jun 2004 08:34:08 -0700
Message-ID: <42fc55dc.0406260734.18f09902@posting.google.com>

I dunno about you but I'd rather not brute-force it keeping track of all those datafiles, archives, backups, etc. everytime I perform this routine (or the more "exciting" restore scenario).

That, plus a lot other reasons in Chapter 1 of the RMAN Guide.

db2convert_at_yahoo.com (DB2 Convert) wrote in message news:<15fb8792.0406260122.5dcb55b4_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> Really, if my database isn't big enough to deploy incremental backup, I don't
> see the advantages of RMAN over the conventional ALTER TABLESPACE ... BACKUP BEGIN.
>
> Advantages of RMAN are:
>
> 1. Incremental where only modified data blocks will be copied
> 2. Integrity check for the data block in case they are corrupted
> 3. Can do parallelism instead of sequential
> 4. ???
>
> What else?
>
> Anyone can list down more advantages of RMAN will really be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> DB2 Convert
Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 10:34:08 CDT