RE: Monthly RMAN Long Term Backup

There are also financial requirements.
I had a financial client that for regulatory bank requirements, we backed up a copy after book lose each month, kept the backups for 7yrs and had to prove yearly to CFO that we could restore one of the 12 monthly backups.

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Monthly RMAN Long Term Backup

Steve, sometimes there are legal obligations to preserve data for several years (HIPAA, SOX). The company needs to be able to prove to the regulators that they can restore data from 7 years back.

Regards

On 3/8/21 7:21 PM, Steve Harville wrote:
> "to be run monthly to get a full backup of the database and keep that
> backup for a year"
>
> This is a bad policy. A backup is supposed to allow recovery to a
> point in time with zero data loss. These monthly backups will never be
> used like backups are meant to be used. They could be dangerous to
> your database if someone restores them without knowing what they are
> doing. If there is a justified reason to store snapshots you should
> just do an export and keep that however long is needed.

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