Re: Using RMAN

We use rman to backup all of our databases. But most importantly, we use it for production. Production databases are in archivelog mode. We do a level 1 backup at the end of the work day and prior to nitely batch processing. We do a level 0 backup early in the morning after batch and before users get on.

We but a full days worth of backups, including the archivelog backups, on a tape in the morning. There is one tape for each day of the week, Mon-Fri. We delete archivlogs from the archive log destination after backing them up.

Production is backed up while it is open. Test and developement databases are not in archivelog mode so we have to back them up while they are not available to users.

HTH,
Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:45 PM

> See currently we are using Unix scripts to do our hot backups .We take the
> backup on disk and everynight after the disk backup we copy the backup on
> tape using Veritas Net Backup.
> Presently we keep 2 days worth of backups on the disk and 3 days of
archive
> logs.That means at any point in time i have the last 2 days backup on disk
> (just for fatster recovery so that we can aviod going to tapes in case of
a
> failure).
> Now if we start using RMAN ,we would be taking hot backups (mostly using
> increamental strategy) using RMAN.So for e.g. we start on say sunday
taking
> an incremental level 0 backup on disk.RMAN only remmbers the disk backup
> ...right???? Note that we will also be copying the backups on tape but
that
> will be independent of RMAN since it is not done using RMAN.
> Say the next 3 days of the week ,we do increamental level 1 backups .On
the
> 3 rd day (i.e. Wednesday) i would have only Monday's and Tuesdays' backup
> on disk (which are the inceemental llevel 1 backups since the whole ideas
is
> to keep last 2 days backup om disk).
> So if we have a failure on Wednesday then RMAN would look for the
> incremental level 0 backup of Sunday on the disk but that backup is not
> present on the disk now.
> I hope i have cleared it up enough.
> Now my question is can we maintain the same policy of keeping 2 days
backup
> on disk by using RMAN.
> What kind of backup strategies do RMAN users follow? Are RMAN backups
> usually taken on tape directly ? Is it faster to take backups on tape
rather
> on disk while using RMAN?
>
> Could RMAN users share their backup/recovery strategies ,please.
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:55 AM
>
>
> > If you are using a recovery catalog then rman keeps track of everything
> > there. He knows if you've been naughty, he know if you've been nice, he
> > knows....OOOPS I got carried away. But when you do a restore using
rman
> he
> > will tell you what backup sets you will need.
> >
> > Ruth
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:20 PM
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > Currently we are using Unix scripts to do backups.We keep last 2 days of
> > backups on the disk and also take the backups on tape daily.
> > We are planning to use RMAN for backups and would like to maintain the
the
> > same policy of 2 days backup on disk and daily tape backups.
> > Is it possible to implement this using RMAN? Which backup will RMAN
> remember
> > (while restore) the disk backup or the tape backup?
> > If we try to use the incremental strategy ,then how would RMAN remember
> the
> > last incremental level 0 backup ? It will not be present on disk since
we
> > only keep the last 2 days backup on it.
> > How do i use RMAN to do restore/recovery in this case?
> >
> >
> > I heard that taking backups on tape is faster than on disk when using
> RMAN?
> > Is it true?
> >
> > Could RMAN users share their backup/recovery strategies ,please.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Author: Ruth Gramolini
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