I second this. -- Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> Visit my blog for more : http://www.dbform.com Join ACOUG: http://www.acoug.org On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unless that half hour is hurting or the space is a pain for the backups, I'd > do fulls, much simpler to understand your recovery options. Talking of > which, schedule a few more unusual tests - cloning, PITR, restore to a host > with diff disks and so on. Symantec used to do plain restore/recover really > well, but nothing else well at all. > > On 10 Sep 2010 19:22, "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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l