Re: slow backups - faster ploy?

With RMAN it is possible to do incremental backups so you backup time of 22 hours/8 hours should come down to something a lot more reasonable.

And yes, to answer your specific question, multiple backups to multiple discs is definitely do-able with RMAN.

Regards
HJR "Tim Smith" <timasmith_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a7234bb1.0303251832.6cc60a36_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> Currently, on VMS, the hot backup - direct to tape 160GB takes
> around 22 hours. This is a 7.3.3.6 database (yes I know we are
> upgrading).
>
> We can provide enough disk space to backup to disk and then to
> tape. I did a script and can probably do a complete backup, in
> parallel to disks in under 8 hours.
> Do you think it is worth the effort to validate and test this new
> script and then backup from disk to tape? Although we may not have
> more backups - at least the backups running during the day to tape
> would be on unused disks - how much do you think this will improve
> overall performance?
>
> In a month or so we will be on 8.1.7 and will work on using RMAN -
> with RMAN is it possible to do the same strategy - multiple backups to
> different disks?
>
> thanks!
>
> Tim
Received on Tue Mar 25 2003 - 22:04:07 CST