Re: RMAN and OpenVMS

When you disk backups you can compress them and put them on tape thru the OS tape facility. Disk is cheaper than tape drives on our IBM machines and I would guess it's not just IBM.

Ruth

• Original Message ----- From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:40 PM Subject: RE: RMAN and OpenVMS

> Hi Franck,
>
> I've been trying to get some time to fully implement RMAN on Oracle 8.0.5
> and OpenVMS 7.1-2. From my testing, I haven't had any problems or
concerns
> about running it on OpenVMS.
>
> The only drawback I could see here is that I don't think you'll have the
> ability to have RMAN and a tape storage management facility like Legato to
> talk directly. Maybe because Legato and others haven't written anything
> like that for OpenVMS??? We're doing disk-to-disk backups anyway, so it's
> not really a concern for us.
>
> You might want to check out Doc ID 69434.1 on MetaLink for RMAN setup info
> on OpenVMS.
>
> HTH! Good luck! :)
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Franck_Vasseur_at_ingerrand.com
> > [mailto:Franck_Vasseur_at_ingerrand.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 07:44
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RMAN and OpenVMS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Does any one works with RMAN and OpenVms Alpha ?
> >
> > Is that easy to setup and manage ? Any advise or opinion ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Franck Fribourg Switzerland
>
>
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