Re: test restore

From: <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:11:03 +0200
Message-ID: <t4nq13h191o5rui0tjvf0cp6pkv2s4alda@4ax.com>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:14:13 -0700, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

>I'd recommend you put Veritas away and use RMAN.
>
>It has two things that make it far superior.
>1. It works.
>2. It is free.

It has one thing that makes it inferior: it doesn't backup directly to tape, and you need extra programs to interface it to a tape libary. Third party vendors however often call a limited version of RMAN, instead of having RMAN calling the third party COTS.

-- 
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Wed Apr 11 2007 - 17:11:03 CDT