Re: Backup trends (2): HOT or COLD

JEDIDIAH <jedi_at_nomad.mishnet> wrote in message news:<slrnc7dq9a.3b4.jedi_at_nomad.mishnet>...

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>
> One of my objections to RMAN is that it doesn't seem to support a
> simple & easy way to clone all of the database files in a manner similar to a
> shell script backup. The fact that RMAN essentially forces you to use a

connect catalog
connect target
connect auxiliary
run {
  allocate channel .....
  duplicate target database nofilenamecheck; }

Database is cloned. Easy peasy nice and easy scripted! BTW, to do this, on the auxiliary, you need to use db_filename_convert and log_filename_convert.

Pete's

> proprietary tar format offends my engineering sensibilities. What gets pased
> off the MML should be something that can be effectively manipulated (in a
> meaningful way) with any other Unix tool.
>
> If a particular instance of "korn shell backup tool" doesn't handle
> new files without "maintenance", that problem really only needs to be fixed
> once (and forever).
Received on Sat Apr 10 2004 - 00:21:26 CDT