I did intend to add that an upgrade to 10g, especially given 9i's desupport
in 6 months, is a sensible alternative. On windows of course there is no
need for the external utility in the first place. I believe the same applies
to solaris 10.
On 2/7/07, Andre van Winssen <dreveewee_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We use 10g rman binary compression, ie RMAN> backup as compressed
> backupset database;, a lot for our 10.2 databases because it is easy to
> use and enables us to keep 2 to 3 times more backups online on disk. On Win
> it isn't so easy to use external compress utilities as part of the
> Oracle backup transaction.
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
>
> 2007/2/7, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>:
> >
> > If you have a compressible filesystem you can do this directly.
> >
> > On 2/7/07, DIANNA GIBBS < DIANNA.GIBBS_at_childrens.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Per Metalink Note 247705.1
> > > ...
> > > You can compress RMAN backup pieces at O/S level once they have been
> > > created
> > > but keep in mind that these are not directly readable by RMAN. You
> > will
> > > have to
> > > manually uncompress these backup pieces before making them available
> > to
> > > RMAN for
> > > restore.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Does anyone do this or have any comments/thoughts?
> > > TIA.
> > > Dianna G.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
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> >
> >
> >
>
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