Re: decision to use or not use an rman catalog?

is there a bigger risk when using rman in anyway? I do not have tape backups yet or a SAN. Just using a simple RAID device attached to each box. The hardware is coming, but no ETA. This project is in its early stages however, its high profile.

The best I can do for backups is store production in development and development in production.

Do I need to make seperate backups of the control files since I would be using RMAN without the recovery catalog?

• Original message -------------- From: "Syed Jaffar Hussain" <sjaffarhussain_at_gmail.com>

Ryan,

As other already suggested unless you dont concern storing rman scripts and not borther about the long history of your backups, you can have rman w/o. By the default control file record time is 7 days, if you wish, you can modify the parameter to have longer history, in this case, you control file grows in size.  

Jaffar
On 2/27/07, ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net <ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net > wrote: We have 1 development box, 1 test database, and one production database all about 10 GBs each. I am the sole Oracle person on the team. My background is more on the developer side than DBA side.

I was considering using RMAN without a recovery catalog to handle backups. Is there much risk in this? Other than multiplexing control files and backing them up what other precautions should I take? We don't have a tape or offsite backup system in place yet either. Hoping to get one soon.

I want to keep this rather simple.

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