Re: Different Backups - A Comparative analysis

Ah! There's the rub...

RMAN isn't "free" unless you are only using device-type=DISK. If you are going to use device-type=SBT-TAPE, then some media-management vendor like Veritas or Legato or whomever is going to charge you a *bundle* to integrate.

Oracle purposely did this so they would not have to write the interface to the various backup-media software utilities. It was a good idea, but the fact is that the cost comes in after the fact...

That's one thing that I was looking to point out...

Mind you, I'm a huge RMAN proponent (see my quote advocating physical violence to get people to migrate to RMAN on the back of the "RMAN Pocket Reference") :-), but I thought it would be useful to point these things out...

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:15 PM

> RMAN Does everything that SQL Backtrack does, for free. :-)
> In fact, last I heard, BMC was planning on altering SQL Backtrack so that
it
>
> is really nothing more than a nice fancy front end to RMAN. When I was
> at CSX we moved away from SQL Backtrack to RMAN and never had any regrets.
> The only issue with SQL Backtrack vs. RMAN was support for 7.x databases.
> RMAN does not support anything < 8.0.
>
> RF
>
> Robert G. Freeman
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:39 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> I *think* that RMAN does everything SQL Backtrack does.
>
> Can't be positive, as I haven't used it for awhile.
>
> RMAN seems to have everything I recall SQL BT having, and then some.
>
> Jared
>
> On Monday 13 January 2003 12:38, Tim Gorman wrote:
> > Don't know really. Just thought that it should probably be included,
then
> > I was hoping to find out... :-)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > To: <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>; "Tim Gorman" <Tim_at_SageLogix.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:49 AM
> >
> > > On Monday 13 January 2003 06:03, Tim Gorman wrote:
> > > > Another question: should SQL BackTrack be included for
consideration?
> > >
> > > What does SQL BackTrack to that RMAN doesn't do?
> > >
> > > Jared
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