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Re: DB backup 9.2.0.4 , rman and arcserve

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 05:56:44 +1100
Message-ID: <3fa947f0$0$9226$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>


Come on Brian...

It's only disk space.

And as we all know (everyone can join in the chorus at this point)

"Diskspace is cheap".

And I've got my Seagate shares to worry about.

;-)

(Seriously: of course when you get to the multi-hundred Gigabyte sized database, you have little choice. I like the robot arms that will load the tapes for me, too!!).

Regards
HJR "Brian Peasland" <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:3FA92229.F1ECFA_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> > Well, I know it's not what you are actually after, but why people backup
> > directly to tape from RMAN I've never figured out. It's *good* to have
> > backups on disk. Quicker to restore from, for one thing.
>
> Because I've got a multi-terabyte database and I just don't have the
> disk space to hold the backup pieces. That's why I go directly to tape.
> Tis better to have a backup that is slow to recover from than no backup
> at all! But for smaller databases, I definitely go directly to disk and
> then *copy* the backup to tape later.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>
> --
> ===================================================================
>
> Brian Peasland
> dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com
>
> Remove the "remove_spam." from the email address to email me.
>
>
> "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of
> the three"
Received on Wed Nov 05 2003 - 12:56:44 CST

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