Re: rman incremental backups vs. full backups

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton_at_speakeasy.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:26:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411101213340.27021@shell1.speakeasy.net>

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ryan wrote:

> I believe I read somewhere that you should only take 1 full backup
> ever. I can't remember where.

This doesn't make any sense to me. If you only ever took one full backup, you would have to apply all the incrementals thereafter in the event of a restore. Until at least 10g (?), incrementals don't save you anything but backup media. They take just as long and read just as much as fulls.

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