Re: Disaster recovery using RMAN

Dennis,
Could you please share your regular backup strategies with me for me to understand this better?

Thanks

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> Dennis,
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> I hope you can clarify something in your plan for me.
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> Why are you backing up to disk? By doing so, you are losing one of the
> chief benefits of RMAN. RMAN keeps a catalog of the tapes and knows
> which tapes to request to restore a backup, and which files to retrieve
> from those tapes.
>
> Do you backup the disk files to tape without the benefit of any tape
> management software? Do you manually label the tapes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
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> DENNIS WILLIAMS
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> Sona - I am planning to test a disaster recovery using RMAN also. My
> company
> won't completely trust it until I can. Like you, I currently use RMAN to
> back up to disk, and write the backup to tape, keeping a Level 0 backup on
> disk. Here are the steps I am planning for disaster recovery.
>
> 1. Export the RMAN catalog and FTP a copy to the target system each time
> nightly backups are complete.
> 2. Back the Level 0 backup to tape, along with RMAN catalog export.
> 3. Mount the tape on the disaster recovery test system.
> 4. Assume that same version of Oracle is installed on the disaster
recovery
> test system.
> 5. Create an RMAN user and import the RMAN catalog export.
> 6. Copy the RMAN Level 0 backup to disk. If possible, put it on the same
> path as on the original machine. If not, create a link so it looks like
the
> same location to the system.
> 7. Begin RMAN recovery, changing disk locations for the data files, as
> needed.
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> I'm just listing these off the top of my head, so I may have left
something
> out. If you or any other listers see anything amiss with my plans, please
> point that out.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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> Hi
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> Here in my company we are planning to put together a disaster recovery
plan
> using RMAN would like to test various recovery scenarios using RMAN.
>
> Could anyone provide the information on the procedures followed in a
> testing
> like this?
>
> TIA
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