I would much rather use an incremental strategy with compressed backupsets. However, I'm limited by what the other DBAs will agree to (we currently use cold and hot user-managed backups). William -----Original Message----- From: Robert Freeman [mailto:robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:44 PM To: Blanchard William; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle 9i RMAN It occurred to me that maybe you were basing this on the OEM suggested backup strategy. One major sort coming to this strategy is that it requires significant amounts of space (the image copies are not compressed). Personally, unless I need very fast recovery, I tend to shy away from this due to the size of the backup image. If I have a need for fast recoveries, then one can often justify stand-by database in those cases. I'd prefer a compressed backupset myself, with incrementals. RF Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press) The LDS Church is looking for DBA's. You must be LDS to apply (please don't write to me and tell me I'm breaking the law. A church can choose to hire members of it's own faith. Look it up if you don't believe me). ----- Original Message ---- From: Blanchard William <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:00:14 AM Subject: Oracle 9i RMAN Hello everyone, The Oracle recommended strategy for backing up a 10g database is image copies with incremental updates. Is there something similar in 9i. What is the Oracle recommended strategy in 9i? Thank you, William -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l