Re: EBU v Recovery Manager

I think you mean RMAN, not RMON?

EBU = Oracle7 only.
RMAN = Oracle8 only.

The scripts for RMAN are not that complicated, just spend some time reading up on the product and playing around with it. Start in a test environment without a recover catalog, and then work your way forward, practising recovers as you go.

You would write the script under pressure, you'd do it beforehand and save it in your recovery catalog. The scripts don't have to be complicated at all.

You get a lot of extra features in RMAN - bad block checking, unused block skipping, auto skip of read only tablespaces, incremental backups, etc. Read the manual. Use the Legato product to cut to tape and you've got the basis of a good system (And we've got around 1TB of Oracle8 running with RMAN).

Steve Phelan.

Craig Dick wrote:

> Can someone who has used both EBU and RMON give me their impressions of RMON.
> From reading the documentation it seems, although it is more powerful is
> control over the recovery process, you pay with more complicated scripts for
> both recovery and backup. The sample recovery scripts I saw were resonably
> lengthy and I don't think I'd want to try and write one under the pressure of
> a database down. I know you can save them to the repository but I'm sure you
> can't save one for every possible recovery option. I guess at least a full
> restore and recovery script would be useful. Any comments?
>
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Received on Thu Mar 04 1999 - 14:38:55 CST