Joel Garry wrote:
> Keith wrote:
> > You're only as good as your archive log backups. If you screw one up,
> > you may be screwed completely. If you keep control of your backups
> > within RMAN (i.e. let RMAN delete your archived logs), you'll mitigate
> > the risk of deleting logs not yet backed up in RMAN.
>
> Maybe I have a long term misunderstanding of RMAN (or are
> misunderstanding you), but I've always felt deleting arcs as soon as
> they are backed up creates a critical point of failure - something
> wrong with that backup, you are boned if you have to recover.
> Spreading redundancy between multiple backups has certainly saved my
> butt. Leaving arcs on disk a few days has certainly reduced time to
> recover for me. Once it's all scripted, the most time is spent
> checking the logs - and one could script that too. (I did, but went
> away from that as I realized I was starting to forget things, need to
> _look_ at it every day, just a couple of minutes along with the alert
> logs).
>
> The main point, of course, is to explicate the recovery requirements
> and be sure the policies and procedures implement the requirements.
>
> jg
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Received on Thu Dec 08 2005 - 22:08:16 CST
