RMAN has serval features that make it attractive. It is the only backup system
that has Oracle Supported incremental block level backups, it does not require
the tablespaces to be put into backup mode, and its relatively to automate. As
far as expiring backups goes, this isn't really that big of deal and even that
is automated in 9i. If your trying to decide between RMAN and homegrown
scripts, I'd lean towards RMAN unless you are really determined to re-invent
the wheel. If the choice is between RMAN and some other comercial backup
product, you'll have to do a side by side comparison of both. If it were me
making the decision, I'd have to have a very a compelling reason not to use
RMAN because there is something inherintly comforting about using a backup
utility written by the same folks that wrote the RDBMS software.
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