Hi All,
I am new to RMAN. I am reading RMAN documentation and doing some testing on
our development box.
I have couple of questions.
1. Our database is in NOARCHIVE LOG mode and I would like to do Incremental
backups.
Since db is in noarchive log mode, I put the database in mount
Prasad,
Incremental backups are only valid if your database is in ARCHIVELOG mode.
Think about it - to be able to recover using incremental backups, you *Need*
the archivelog files to apply changes. These are not being created when you
are running in NOARCHIVELOG mode.
Secondly, flipping
the documentation told you: no they are not
just because the incremental backup completed does not mean that it is
usable.
Either leave the database in archivelog mode to do incremental backups
or keep it in noarchivelog mode (and why you would not want to do that
is a whole other discussion)
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Can someone explain why incremental backups are only valid in archivelog mode? I don't think this is correct and the manual states that consistent incremental backups are possible. I took the quote below from the Oracle 8i Recovery Manager Users Guide
