Re: How are you backing up your V,VLDB????

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:18:14 +1100
Message-ID: <oLe_9.36857$jM5.93857@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:F88_9.36688> Hi >
> Good point. We're looking at converting much data to read only and backing
> it up once in a blue moon. However, our backups get copied to tape and the
> tapes get re-cycled after 3 months (or so). So we need to change something
> here or make sure the "blue moon" arrives at least within this time period
> !!

OK, here's a question. Suppose you manage (somehow) to get Legato working, and you are also using 9i RMAN. In 9i RMAN, you can say (for example) 'backup database keep forever archivelog', meaning that RMAN will know not to regard that backup as ever becoming redundant.

If RMAN is working in conjunction with Legato, would the two together have enough smarts to prevent the over-writing of a 3-month-old tape on which a 'kept forever' backupset is located?

My suspiscion is not, but having never worked out how to get Legato working properly, I don't know for sure, and can't test it.

Regards
HJR Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 13:18:14 CST