Re: rman incremental backups vs. full backups
- From: Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ryan <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:26:56 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ryan wrote:
> I believe I read somewhere that you should only take 1 full backup
> ever. I can't remember where.
This doesn't make any sense to me. If you only ever took one full
backup, you would have to apply all the incrementals thereafter in the
event of a restore. Until at least 10g (?), incrementals don't save
you anything but backup media. They take just as long and read just
as much as fulls.
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