Re: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog

Is this a possible solution? Use a $500 desktop with your version of oracle, your reporting software, the reports,copy the database. Test it, put it away.
Ive done this at a few clients sites - it was actually recommended by the client. It dosnt scale well but it works Bob

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Jared Still wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:28:13 -0700, Joel Garry
><joelgarry_at_anabolicinc.com> wrote:
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>>It boils down to Oracle not wanting to spend the bucks to allow backward
>>compatibility, and no one yet seeing the value of designing software for
>>the ages. Even if nothing else will grant the latter, restoration
>>software must deal with aging. I think RMAN should be able to deal with
>>multiple versions, restoring the O install if it has to. Well, maybe
>>not without a catalog... :-)
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>This problem is bigger than Oracle.
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>Say you can restore your 5 year old data?
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>Do you have an app that can work with it?
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>Archived copies of the application?
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>A place to run it?
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>Documentation that tells you how to do so?
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>I recently ran into a scenario like this where the financial wizards needed
>old finance data to make it through an audit.
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>The data was/is in Great Plains. A version that is about 6 or 7 years old.
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>Fortunately, we still have a CD of the original version.
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>A local consultant had a copy of the old Btrieve database binaries, and the
>expertise to set it up. It took quite a while to get this all figured
>out and setup.
>Our consultant ( the second one we called, not the first) knew her stuff, sorted
>it all out and saved the day.
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>In the meantime, the finance wizards were forced to go back to the paper trail,
>which some predecessor had thoughtfully created during the migration to SAP,
>and prepared their data from these reports, because there was a lot
>more involved
>to setting up an old version of GP than copying some files around.
>
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>Food for thought.
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