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Don Seiler wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:21:21 +1100, Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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>>Going back to your original post. You mentioned the backup getting to 100+ >>GB and running out of space. >> >>Have you considered doing incremental backups with RMAN?? >> >>That only backs up those blocks which have changed since the last backup >>(with various rules about the incremental level to determine which original >>backup is consulted to work out what's changed). >> >>You would still need a full backup on a regular basis to provide the >>"baseline" against which the incremental deltas are compared. So it may be >>of no use to you.
>>But it would be a shame to turn your back on RMAN, because you'd miss out on >>such wonders as block-level recovery, corruption checking during the backup, >>automated fixing of corruption detected during a backup, backups done in >>parallel, no clobbering of LGWR during the hot backup, and so on.
>>100GB of disk space can't be that expensive, can it?? >>
-- Regards, Frank van BortelReceived on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:40:20 CST