Re: How popular is RMAN for backup?

We use RMAN exclusively at our shop, all 8i databases. I've used RMAN to do some really scary,ugly recoveries: all controlfiles lost; recover database to a point in time; recover *entire* database (all controlfiles, all database files including SYSTEM were lost). Worked like a champ, and I was the hero afterwards. We chose it mainly because we have big databases (100's of GB) and RMAN backup sets can be much smaller than the allocated size of the database, unlike "regular" hot backups. Also much faster than "regular" hot backups, and generate less redo, so less impact when backups are running during high user activity. Yes, RMAN had its fair share of bugs, but in my experience, it's gotten much better with each new release.
 Diana

dominica_at_secondhat.com wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> How popular is using RMAN for Oracle backup?
>
> I use to write my own dynamic script to generate
> which tablespaces and redo logs files to be
> backed-up for HOTBACKUP.
>
> And my friend recently tell me RMAN become more
> and more popular and I am trying to learn RMAN now.
>
> But very curious how do other senior Oracle DBA like RMAN.
>
> I think it is pretty confusing to me for now.
>
> Please email me directly to dominica_at_secondhat.com
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dominica
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