Re: questions about RMAN

From: NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:36:12 GMT
Message-ID: <41c1ff48.2426688984@localhost>

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:25:06 +0100, Sybrand Bakker <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl> wrote:

>>Basically, want to buy a decent linux box, a fairly cheap SATA array
>>and store all backups to it through Sql*Net and gigabit ethernet.
>>Database sizes are mostly under 100G. Some future databases needing
>>rman backup might be running on Linux.
>>
>
>If SATA means a disk array it is not going to work.

I can't say it will work, b/c haven't tried it yet. But backups should require much fewer IOPS, yet SATA disks have similar throughput. So, they should work for backups.

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