Re: RMAN

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Jared

On Friday 05 April 2002 12:13, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> Jared - Well, if the tech book market is in the dumps, it isn't my fault.
> I've bought 2 Oracle books this week. I would still argue that an RMAN for
> Dummies or RMAN 101 book would have a wide audience because RMAN is a
> standard part of Oracle so a lot of sites will be taking a look at it. You
> know, for people that don't know what "esoteric" means :-)
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> Not very likely. The tech book market is in the dumps already, and
> this book would be rather esoteric.
>
> Jared
>
> On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:08, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> > Ron
> > Hopefully one of the authors on the list is writing the great RMAN
> > book that people like me need so much. In the meanwhile, check out
> > "Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference" from O'Reilly. At only $10 you can't pass
> > it up. Jonathan Gennick who participates on this list edited it.
> > For us, hot backups never worked out. That is why we are looking at
> > RMAN.
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:49 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > List,
> > I need the name of a good book that deals specifically with RMAN. I
> > have read the fine manual and have found out that it basically works
> > with a third party vendor software if you are using tape as the backup
> > storage media. There has to be a way around this requirement. I have a
> > 70 GIG test database that I would like to use Rman on and I am not going
> > to use a catalog for RMAN. I have a system tape drive that I would like
> > to use to backup each tablespace individually. I do not have a large or
> > multi cartridge drive to use. Backup to disk is not possible as I do not
> > have much free space.
> > Could you please inform me of the contents of your
> > V$BACKUP_DEVICE.DEVICE_NAME if you use a tape drive for backups.
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
> > ROR mª¿ªm

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