Re: How popular is RMAN for backup?

All true. The only gripe I have with RMAN is that it doesnt work with plain /dev/rmt! You *have* to use a media management software/hardware i.e. a juke box or a tape library.

Yes, I can create backup sets on disk and 'tar' that to tape, but then I lose out on most of the 'magic' features of rman i.e. automatically restore the latest backup, backup made 10 days ago, etc.

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:<3b4d5c80_at_news.iprimus.com.au>...
> BUT... it's big, saving graces are (a) you do not get block-level redo being
> generated whilst performing hot backups, and hence there is minimal
> performance impact on the database; (2) parallelization of backups means
> they don't take forever; (3) skipping of unused blocks mean backup0s are
> considerably smaller than one done using O/S techniques would be; (4) -and
> don't underestimate this one- the fact that RMAN can spot corrupt Oracle
> blocks means that any backup that succeeds is guaranteed capable of being
> used for recovery.
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 22:14:27 CDT