Snewber wrote:
> I'm currently only working in development for 10gR2 so I'm not pushed
> for time. It would be nice though to get duplication working correctly
> with tempfiles though since I would like to use RMAN exclusively for
> backups since 10g RMAN does file compression. I've checked and also
> posted on metalink but it seems that people haven't been using 10gR2
> RMAN there either :(
>
> Thanks for your reply as I think that it confirms that people haven't
> tried this yet or haven't found a solution.
>
> I think that GOMS is widely known.
>
>
>
> hpuxrac wrote:
>
>> #Snewber wrote:
>> #> I think that it is quite unusual that no one here seems to have done
>>
>> #> what I would think is a very common task, even the senior DBAs, and
>> that
>> #> is to duplicate a database. I realise that RMAN isn't the simplest
>> of
>> #> backup and recovery tools (for some of the advanced stuff) to use
>> and so
>> #> maybe this is why no one has done it?
>>
>> As far as I understand it, what you are attempting to do "is supposed"
>> to be able to be accomplished in 10g release 2 via rman.
>>
>> It is certainly possible that this feature might work in some
>> circumstances in 10.2 and not others. No idea if this might be port
>> specific ( ie might work on sun but not on linux etc ).
>>
>> Many of us are not yet on 10.2 and a lot of us haven't had time to test
>> out various features.
>>
>> Also, depending on your hardware environment ( we use EMC dasd ) there
>> might be a lot of other hardware based tricks that are much faster at
>> duplicating a database than going through rman.
>>
>> #> Thanks for the pointer about the second post, looks like I forgot
>> about
>> #> that one and hence the second post, sorry.
>>
>> No worries. Some of the people that respond to posts here like to
>> grumble more than others. You do know about grumpy old man syndrome
>> right?
>>
>> As Mr. Bakker pointed out metalink and working through oracle support
>> might be a good approach if you are licensed for support.
>>
Please stop top posting. Thank you.
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Received on Sun Nov 13 2005 - 20:30:54 CST
