Re: RMAN - To Catalog or not to catalog, that is the question

  • From: <jtesta@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT)

Fuad, I must agree, it was garbage/crap in early 8 days, 8i relatively
better and in 9i it just rulz :).

Still hoping to mess with it in the 10g world late summer.

joe

original message below



 just finished my 1.6tb restore  this morning and thats when i realised
 boy rman is good. rman has a  lot of good features inclusding skipping
 free blocks which makes backups much faster .  I personally believe that
setting up a  cataslog is good for  a couple of reasons. 1. you can get
 all sorts of reports (management always likes reports). 2.  if you have
 mutiple databases user it.

> We actually have our rman catalog on the same server as the tape
 management server . since in a dr you need to restore  a tape management
 server. yuo will resotr the rman catalog . plus incase you lose the
 catalgo you can resync fromt eh control files of the database.

 Rman has a lot of good block checking features  for hotbackups,cold
 backups and archvielogs which are good. I've previously  before rman had
 issues with forgetting to add a datafile and  then regretting that on a
 restore. rman does all that for you.
 rman has matured a lot over the years .
 it might not be perfect but its still a good solution.





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