<Crass commercial plug> Or in this case rtfrfb (read the friggin Robert Freeman book). </Crass commercial plug> Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! Sig V1.1 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:50 AM To: sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: What are the common mistakes DBA do retarding backup & Recovery? Not doing RTFM. On 7/4/07, Syed Jaffar Hussain <sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like hear from you about the common mistakes by most of the DBAs do > regarding the backup and recovery. I would think of the following: > > 1. Never testing their backups. > 2. No good backup and recovery policies. > 3. Afraid of using RMAN or Making benefits of RMAN > > I would really like to know if there are any other points than what I > specified above. > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Syed Jaffar Hussain > Oracle ACE > 8i,9i & 10g OCP DBA > > http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/oracle_ace/ace1.html#hussain > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." > -- Alex Gorbachev, Oracle DBA Brewer, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex http://blog.oracloid.com BAAG party - www.BattleAgainsAnyGuess.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l