Re: RMAN or not RMAN

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:59:54 GMT
Message-ID: <KnrF5.6103$mC.428030@monger.newsread.com>

If you're doing hot backups in a 24x7 situation, then RMAN can help keep track of the many pieces involved. But it is not easy to set up and to use and it is not at all intuitive. It's one of those things that will probably be a lot better two versions from now.

Van

"Scott Watson" <rscottwatson_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:al8F5.9388$0d3.251284_at_weber.videotron.net...
> I was wondering if RMAN is really used or if DBA's are using shell scripts
> to perform backup and recovery.
>
> Are there any real performance improvements to using RMAN. The big issue
> that keeps coming up in the doc that I have read is it can be done in
> parallel, but I am not exactly sure what that means since I can always
open
> another telnet session and recover other datafiles and therfore my
recovery
> is being done in parallel??
>
> Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> scott.
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 17:59:54 CDT