RMAN vs. OS Backups

From: Rodgers, Tony (Atlanta) <Tony.Rodgers_at_cox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:04 -0500
Message-ID: <529B47EE34C4D1118D0800A0C99ABC981B219E@EATL0S04>

Does anyone have any practical experience using RMAN in Oracle8 such that you could briefly explain the benefits of using it rather than a
combination of O/S backups and exports?

I'm familiar with some of the benefits RMAN is supposed to offer in general, but there is some overhead associated with its use (such as the keeping of the recovery catalogs). Is it simply easier to just do operating system backups (cold) periodically than wrestle with the RMAN configurations? Or would you highly recommend using RMAN?

Just curious before launching a backup/recovery scheme for a development database. Received on Wed Dec 30 1998 - 14:10:04 CST