Re: what is the main purpose of cloning a database.
- From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:37:21 +1100
Once a month for DW, here. Sometimes more often,
depending on the amount of ad-hoc requests
from the Peoplesoft brigade. For some reason,
they need an entire copy of the db to test
a dropdown menu...
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Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jack van Zanen wrote,on my timestamp of 18/12/2008 8:52 AM:
Hehe, I was just about to mention that.
We prove our RMAN backups to tape work just about every day when we
refresh test/staging/development/UAT databases
Including every now and than a year old backup where tapes have to be
brought back in and inserted into the tape unit.
Quite comforting knowing you can restore your data
Jack
2008/12/18 Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>>
I'm a little suprised that all the discussion has focussed on creating
test databases. The dba can often get away with murder, they cant get
away with failure to recover data. Database cloning both tests and
demonstrates that your backups can be recovered and in a reasonable
time frame. Or of course sometimes not.
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