RMAN question
- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:20:54 +0100
I'm after opinions and others practice.
At my new site we use RMAN with a catalog, at least some databases do
and some didn't. I'm trying to ensure that what and how we backup is
policy driven and consistent, primarily so that the recovery and
cloning processes are consistent and predictable.
I therefore configured one of our new systems to use RMAN and register
its backups with the catalog. Since this system is temporarily
extremely short of disk space (and we don't have a media manager) I
schedule a deletion of the old backup immediately before I take the
new one, which in turn is scheduled just before the tape backup of the
server - not great but there you go. Now as RMAN won't know that my
nasty little cron has come along and deleted the backup from disk I
run a crosscheck backup; delete expired after the new backup has been
taken to resync the catalog.
It was suggested to me that best practice was to resync regularly
(like every 15 minutes). I've read the docs and they sort of back me
up (sorry for the pun!) in that they say that a manual resync is
rarely required, but then rather drop themselves in it by suggesting
that if you backup 'infrequently' where frequency is defined in terms
of log switches not time then because the controlfile doesn't know
about archivelogs generated since the last backup you should resync
manually between backups. It seems to me that if there is any truth in
this last then you should resync after every log switch, but my
question is what do others do, and if you have a coherent reason so
much the better!
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Niall Litchfield
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