Re: Backup Sanity Check

Preston wrote:

> Sorry, you've completely lost me there. Unless I've misunderstood the
> RMAN commands, that script should do a full backup the first time it's
> run, then incrementals on subsequent runs which refresh the full backup
> with any changes. I'm not sure what you mean by "change the
> incrementals with full backups"?
>
> Restoring time isn't really an issue I don't think. Most of our
> clients' databases are only a couple of gig max with a handfull of
> users.
>

What Brain said. In order to keep restore time low, one would do level 0 backups every now and then.

And, in the light of the small size of your clients' databases, why not just take full backups?

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Frank van Bortel

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