How long can you tolerate being down to do a recovery? On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Storey, Robert (DCSO) < RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, my backup person and I were having a discussion. We use symatnec’s > software to do the backup of our oracle database. It in turn is issuing the > rman scripts. > > > > Our database is about medium size, probably about 100gig. The full backup > takes about 35 minutes. > > > > We are doing fulls every night. We used to do traditional hot backups, but > changed to rman and using fulls. > > > > So, do I keep doing fulls every night, or do I shift to schedule of full’s > with incremental in between? Are there pro’s or cons’ to either setup? > > > > Thanks >