Re: Full vs Incremental

  • From: Christopher Boyle <cboyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:27:01 -0400

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.
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> Our database is about medium size, probably about 100gig.  The full backup
> takes about 35 minutes.
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> We are doing fulls every night. We used to do traditional hot backups, but
> changed to rman and using fulls.
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> 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?
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> Thanks
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