Hi Lisa, Steve,
But what advantage do you gain by taking the two days
to install RMAN?
The only one I can think off is the block level backup
but that can create problems of it's own. They used
to do block level backup in the 60's and gave that up
because of the complexity.
Disadvantages:
- another database to backup
- another dependency (ooooh I hate those)
- upgrades and version conflicts
My scripts do hot backups to disk or tape, allow choice
of tablespaces and will backup tablespace files in parallel
according to the number of CPU's. The last major change
I made to them was from Oracle 6 to Oracle 7.0. The biggest
advantage is that the procedure to recover every database
is exactly the same. RMAN starts with which catlaog do I
connect to.
My recovery command (for the easy ones at least) is:
recover database auto in svrmgrl.
Apart from that, DBA's who have never used anything but
RMAN may be able to recover but usually do not understand
the underlying concepts and so are unable to figure out what
to do when problems during recovery arise.
Dave
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