RMAN & hardware multiplexing

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 1 Aug 2003 09:59:12 -0700
Message-ID: <91884734.0308010859.cbfa6d7@posting.google.com>

All:

I was reviewing the 8i RMAN manual, and there is a big warning that Oracle does not recommend hardware multiplexing of Oracle backups. A brief look at metalink wasn't too illuminating - they think it would cause too much disk head movement? I would think hardware multiplexing would specifically account for that. What exactly do they mean?

Or let me know if I missed something in the metalink RMAN index: http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=131865.1

I'll be doing 8.1.7.4 and 9.mumble on hp-ux and W2K with perhaps various cheap raid. Opinions on cheap raid solicited.

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Received on Fri Aug 01 2003 - 11:59:12 CDT