Re: RMAN backups

  • From: John Smiley <jrsmiley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: richard.ignizio@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:19:29 -0600

Backup times with RMAN are going to vary greatly depending upon the hardware 
and how many blocks need to be backed up. Even a very large database can be 
backed up incrementally if very few blocks have changed since the last 
backup with RMAN.

What might be a better yardstick is backup rate. The fastest RMAN backup 
rate I've seen was published by Amazon a few years back. They attained 2TB / 
hour.

John Smiley
Technical Management Consultant
TUSC, Inc.

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