Re: decision to use or not use an rman catalog?

is there a bigger risk when using rman in anyway? I do not have tape backups 
yet or a SAN. Just using a simple RAID device attached to each box. The 
hardware is coming, but no ETA. This project is in its early stages however, 
its high profile. 

The best I can do for backups is store production in development and 
development in production. 

Do I need to make seperate backups of the control files since I would be using 
RMAN without the recovery catalog? 

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From: "Syed Jaffar Hussain" <sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> 

Ryan,

As other already suggested unless you dont concern storing rman scripts and not 
borther about the long history of your backups, you can have rman w/o.
By the default control file record time is 7 days, if you wish, you can modify 
the parameter to have longer history, in this case, you control file grows in 
size.
 
Jaffar
On 2/27/07, ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: 
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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