Re: Raid Stripe Size.....

Joel Garry apparently said,on my timestamp of 5/03/2005 8:15 AM:

> Well, you seem to be assuming the tape is going to be smaller than the
> database. Over all the versions I've worked with, I find that rarely
> to be the case. (And the same applies to tablespace, if that is the

Hehehe! I need YOUR databases! Or your tape drives... :D

Seriously, my experience is exactly the opposite: the backup device unit is almost always much smaller capacity than the database itself. Hence my distorted view! ;)

> unit of recovery you are making the volsize based on [did I say that
> right? :-].)

Well, it's the smallest bit I can restore in Oracle and still end up with something I can roll forward from, so I go with the tablespace size. Mind you, with RMAN these things tend to take a different shape and priority.

> Anyways, isn't a growing database going to need another tape or 12
> eventually no matter what size? That's been my experience. The
> experience I want to avoid is some stupid backup manager that has to
> hunt all over the tape for each file even if you are restoring
> everything.

Don't you just hate tape managers that restore by alphabetical order? Asking for trouble...

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