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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:47:37 +0100, Jim Smith
<jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>You really are the most appalling ignoramus. Where is the lack of
>experience or knowledge in knowing that actions which cost money and
>introduce risk need to be analysed and justified in business terms as
>well as technical terms.
I don't know why you keep repeating this mantra.
The only reason I can imagine is that you really don't know RMAN,
otherwise you wouldn't have made those remarks
>
>>What cost or risk in implementing RMAN?
>
>The cost of the time to implement and test it, and the risk of breaking
>a currently working, *critical* component.
In my experience likely *every hand made* backup script is less robust than RMAN. So when you are talking about *critical* components, chances are you might already have one. You aren't aware of that because self-developed solutions are often justed *trusted* instead of *tested*, and it often is quite easy to break them. One little example is a script where the list of files to be backuped had to be maintained in a separate configuration file. As you claim you know everything so much better, you could probably, as a quiz question, identify why this is a crap solution, and identify the costs involved.
-- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 15:10:53 CDT