Currently my company is using SQL BackTrack for Oracle backups &
recoveries. Recently there has been questions about the cost of SQL
BackTrack & in general would it save the company money to use RMAN
instead. Has anyone switched from one to the other? If so, why & how
did it go. Was it worth the cost or the savings depending on which way
you went? From reviewing the RMAN documentation it looks like RMAN is
command line -- it their a GUI interface? How easy is it to use? When
a recovery is done in RMAN, does it expect that the archive logs are
available or is that a manual process to restore these logs? How easy
is it to "restore" databases from one box to another. It looks like
RMAN allows me to have a central repository that keeps track of all
backups that are done -- is this so? Does it really allow a DBA to
review by instance all the backups that were done so one can decide
which backup can be restored from? Please provide any general or
specific knowledge that you may have with either of these two tools.
Thanks so very much
Lorri
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 14:33:54 CDT
