Re: compressed backup - is this a reasonable size
- From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:27:25 -0500
Oops, I meant 700 GB. The compression was good, but not THAT good. :)
--
Jason Heinrich
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Yes, RMAN backup compression is typically quite good. I've had a 2.4 TB
> database backed up into <700 MB. The downside is that restoring the
> compressed backup set can take a lot more time, which is particularly
> irritating if you only need to restore a single datafile.
>
> Of course, you should test the restore to prove that it was successful.
>
> --
> Jason Heinrich
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jeffrey Beckstrom
> <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Just ran the following command. This is our first RMAN backup. It
>> backed up a 17G database into about 3G of files. Is this reasonable?????
>>
>> backup as compressed backupset database plus archivelog delete input;
>>
>> Backup states it finished normally.
>>
>> Jeffrey Beckstrom
>> Database Administrator
>> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
>> 1240 W. 6th Street
>> Cleveland, Ohio 44113
>>
>
>
Other related posts:
