RE: not including temp neither undo tablespace in full backup

I think RMAN by default does not backup temp tablespace. How do I ask RMAN to backup temp datafiles in "backup database" command? Thanks,
Roger

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Williams Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:09 PM To: juancarlosreyesp_at_gmail.com
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Subject: Re: not including temp neither undo tablespace in full backup

Juan Carlos,

> We have decided not to backup temp neither undo tablespaces in a full
> backup we get periodically.
> Because it can be easily recreated.

I find that the times backups are needed are usually not calm times, but often contain moments of sheer terror. Sometimes you are awakened from a deep sleep and must perform a recovery while you mind is still partially asleep.

    Therefore, my goal is to make database recovery as simple as possible. You may save some backup time by omitting the temp space (Oracle tends to do that). However, during a recovery it is easy to forget the additional step of recreating the temp space. So you tell the users the database is recovered and go back to sleep. Just about the time you are drifting off to sleep the phone rings again with the joyous news that the users are receiving some weird Oracle error about a missing datafile. Eventually you get the exact error and it occurs to you that you forgot to recreate the temp datafile. The users are less than amused because they are now convinced that you lied to them when you said the database was ready for their use.

Dennis Williams

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