Re: Backup Tool Alternative to RMAN and BMC's SQL Backtrack

Well, you won't appreciate this one. Are you, like, stupid or something? All of those things in Note: 247611.1 are fixed or easily worked around by 9206.

Don't you realize a third party solution will have worse problems? If your management is prone to finger-point won't having another vendor involved hurt? And what about when your vendor gets bought by Sybase? Don't you realize anything other than RMAN will have worse problems? Didn't you notice the link to PITR workarounds? Haven't you read about how RMAN is the only solution that can avoid split-block issues? What are you doing now that you think is better? Have you searched metalink for BMC? Do you think it is a bad thing that Oracle is upfront about bugs? Do you think a product doesn't have bugs because it doesn't have patches? Do you really think there is any out-of-the-box solution? There is a whole industry of "integrators" based on making these things work. Where in the world did you get a high TCO for RMAN? Why would you search the internet for scripts? They're right there in the fine manual, just a few lines long!

Sorry to make it rude or personal, but that's what I see. I'll wager you have management that thinks yelling at vendors and staff makes things get fixed. And it sounds like they haven't sprung for the proper number of 9's if they have too small staff and no way to perform periodic maintenance.

jg

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