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Hi Terry,
We have been using RMAN (with Veritas) for about the last 6 months to backup about 60-70 DB's every day. It seems to work relatively well, with a few caveats:
Other than that, it is MUCH EASIER than the old "cp" recovery process. It is very good about telling you what it is doing during restore and recovery.
In conjuction with our implmentation of RMAN, we coded an interface to DBAmon (our DB monitoring tool) which measures hourly the number of hours since the last successful backup. If our threshold is exceeded, then an alarm goes off and DBAmon automatically attempts to rerun the backup.
Good Luck!
Bill
-- Bill Border Agilent Technologies bb22_at_uswest.net Low-Cost, UX-Based Oracle/Informix Monitor: http://dbamon.com terry norman wrote in message <8ph4al$imp$1_at_newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>...Received on Mon Sep 11 2000 - 17:32:35 CDT
>Hi all,
>
>Any views on RMAN please? I'm supposed to be using it to provide backup /
>recovery on a database coming into production, using Legato Networker to do
>the media end of things.
>I understand how it's supposed to work, the developers have provided backup
>scripts (!), and we'll test it at Ops Acceptance.
>What's the feeling about this product? I'm slightly worried that because
>recoveries are mercifully rare, any problems might emerge only when it's
the
>real thing, and there's going to be a layer of complexity between me and
the
>recovery materials. (I'm nervous that I won't be able to just reach out for
>Rama Velpuri's excellent book on backup and recovery!)
>For example, is it possible to create backup files that can only be used by
>RMAN? I.e. you can't just forget about RMAN when the chips are down and go
>back to unix cp statements - assuming you can figure out what to copy!
>TIA for any experiences, especially if anyone's used it to recover in
deadly
>earnest!
>
>Regards,
>Terry.
>
>