Re: RMAN vs. OS Backups

From: Joe & Anne Buhl <jabuhl_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 31 Dec 1998 05:18:06 GMT
Message-ID: <368B0A89.85ADEC2B@worldnet.att.net>

At my last job some other people were implementing it an ran it to a problem that was associated to a certain number of connections to the database and rman would hang. The solution from oracle was to reboot the server but that was not and option for us so they stopped development. sorry for the flakey details. but I do know it was a show stopper for us.

check with oracle support.

Rodgers, Tony (Atlanta) wrote:

> Does anyone have any practical experience using RMAN in Oracle8
> such that you could briefly explain the benefits of using it rather than
> a
> combination of O/S backups and exports?
>
> I'm familiar with some of the benefits RMAN is supposed to offer in
> general, but there is some overhead associated with its use (such as
> the keeping of the recovery catalogs). Is it simply easier to just do
> operating system backups (cold) periodically than wrestle with the
> RMAN configurations? Or would you highly recommend using RMAN?
>
> Just curious before launching a backup/recovery scheme for a
> development database.
Received on Wed Dec 30 1998 - 23:18:06 CST