Re: REPOST: RMAN question

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:23:17 +1000
Message-ID: <4134196c$0$24192$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> Personal experience:
>
> I still have the backup tapes from my original Sun SparcStation (1989
> vintage), and can still read them, using an old SCSI-based tape drive and
> tar.
>
> However, no operational disk drive in my shop is older than 7 years. And
> all those disk drives have been formatted at least twice.
>
> That said, IMO any current B/R strategy probably should have a "copy of
> incremental to hard-disk retention" policy for the flexibility and speed
> of recovery, if nothing else.

Lord, yes.

Backing up to disk is pretty essential for precisely the two reasons you cite, IMO. It's whether that is a suitable *long term* repository that Daniel was discussing, I think.

As in all things, there's a range of technology to suit varied needs, and any given backup strategy probably uses several of them in various admixtures and combinations.

Nothing wrong with that at all.

Regards
HJR
> Question: what are current viable alternatives for offsite disaster
> recovery storage when dealing with data sets greater than typical DVD (say
> 50GB and up)?
>
> /Hans
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 01:23:17 CDT