From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Jun 9 08:44:50 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i59DiZM01805 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:44:45 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i59DiP601760 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:44:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 7AA4972CA10; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:30:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22645-07; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:30:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B7C9172C464; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:30:02 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:28:34 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 082C372C538 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:28:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21613-95 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:28:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from webhost-2.webgnostics.com (webhost-2.webgnostics.com [65.162.17.13]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8395172C359 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:28:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from dmc-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by webhost-2.webgnostics.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i59Dchx13731 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:38:43 -0400 Received: from 155.188.255.3 (proxying for 192.168.38.129) (SquirrelMail authenticated user jtesta@dmc-it.com) by www.dmc-it.com with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49147.155.188.255.3.1086788323.squirrel@www.dmc-it.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: RMAN - To Catalog or not to catalog, that is the question From: To: In-Reply-To: <20040609134333.81894.qmail@web80507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <270A0BDDFDE54E41B78F0F06D82A66B8508AF6@okcexg3.kmg.com> <20040609134333.81894.qmail@web80507.mail.yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 2327 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jtesta@dmc-it.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Fuad, I must agree, it was garbage/crap in early 8 days, 8i relatively better and in 9i it just rulz :). Still hoping to mess with it in the 10g world late summer. joe original message below just finished my 1.6tb restore this morning and thats when i realised boy rman is good. rman has a lot of good features inclusding skipping free blocks which makes backups much faster . I personally believe that setting up a cataslog is good for a couple of reasons. 1. you can get all sorts of reports (management always likes reports). 2. if you have mutiple databases user it. > We actually have our rman catalog on the same server as the tape management server . since in a dr you need to restore a tape management server. yuo will resotr the rman catalog . plus incase you lose the catalgo you can resync fromt eh control files of the database. Rman has a lot of good block checking features for hotbackups,cold backups and archvielogs which are good. I've previously before rman had issues with forgetting to add a datafile and then regretting that on a restore. rman does all that for you. rman has matured a lot over the years . it might not be perfect but its still a good solution. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------