Ian,
You need TDP installed on all target nodes, however you don't need TDP
installed on the node where the catalog resided. Also, you need only one
tdpo.opt per node, but don't need one for the catalog ('cos TDP will not be
installed there).
We have always used the default of adsmorc for
There is a Metalink note (73431.1) which talks about
the rman version compatibility, but it also states:
Ensure that the RMAN executable version matches the
version of the target database that it is backing up
which I presume to mean that you need to run rman from
each target and push to the
We are in the midst of a big move to RMAN. We use EMC's EDM to do
backups, and the SAs have been pushing us towards RMAN for a while now,
cause the EDM interface intergrates w/ RMAN seamlessly. It really is a
nice backup solution. (We started the process by upgrading all our EDM
units to 5.0)
