Thanks for your input. I understand you can do backups to outside the
Flash Recovery Area, to a regular disk location. But does it still make
sense to have a Flash Recovery Area at all? What do you give up by not
having a FLash Recovery Area?
Brian Peasland wrote:
> Joop wrote:
> > We have a RAC standard database using ASM for database and recovery
> > files storage. The Flash Recovery Area is on an ASM device. We like to
> > be able to offload the recovery files (backups and archive log files)
> > to disk and then tape for use in recovery on replacement hardware in
> > case of a loss of our hardware. But we are facing some roadblocks. The
> > recovery files are in the Flash Recovery Area on ASM, so they are not
> > easily offloadable from there. RMAN can copy recovery files from the
> > Flash Recovery Area, but only to tape and not to disk.
> >
> > What options do we have to make the recovery files available on disk?
> > Back up using RMAN manually (instead of the enterprise manager console)
> > without using a Flash Recovery Area?
> > Any suggestion is appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joop Kaashoek
> >
>
> The Oracle docs say that you can only backup the recovery area to sbt
> and that if you do not have a sbt channel allocated, an error will result.
>
> Have you thought about creating another backup job which does go to disk
> (not ASM)? I'd still use the Flash Recovery Area but you can also have a
> backup somewhere else.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
>
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Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 17:07:51 CDT
