decision to use or not use an rman catalog?

  • From: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:48:35 +0000

We have 1 development box, 1 test database, and one production database all 
about 10 GBs each. I am the sole Oracle person on the team. My background is 
more on the developer side than DBA side. 

I was considering using RMAN without a recovery catalog to handle backups. Is 
there much risk in this? Other than multiplexing control files and backing them 
up what other precautions should I take? We don't have a tape or offsite backup 
system in place yet either. Hoping to get one soon. 

I want to keep this rather simple. 

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