Re: How popular is RMAN for backup?

Totally agree with Howard.
Think not what you can do for RMAN, think what RMAN can do for you. That is; think in terms of how you *recover* your instance. I have had two serious big time crashes on my system, which resulted in loss of datafiles.
I grabbed the appropriate scripts, made quick edits, presented them to RMAN who presented me, with a recovered instance. All the 'hard' stuff was done by RMAN.

If you are serious about being able to recover your instance, do yourself a favour and look in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo for the case?.rcv scripts. Learn how to apply these scripts, have a play with them. It is possible to backup to disk, tape or just test with them.

George Barbour.
<dominica_at_secondhat.com> wrote in message news:9iiqom$pkt$1_at_secondhat.secondhat.com...
> 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
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:33:04 CDT