I did intend to add that an upgrade to 10g, especially given 9i's desupport in 6 months, is a sensible alternative. On windows of course there is no need for the external utility in the first place. I believe the same applies to solaris 10. On 2/7/07, Andre van Winssen <dreveewee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We use 10g rman binary compression, ie RMAN> backup as compressed backupset database;, a lot for our 10.2 databases because it is easy to use and enables us to keep 2 to 3 times more backups online on disk. On Win it isn't so easy to use external compress utilities as part of the Oracle backup transaction. Regards, Andre 2007/2/7, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>: > > If you have a compressible filesystem you can do this directly. > > On 2/7/07, DIANNA GIBBS < DIANNA.GIBBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Per Metalink Note 247705.1 > > ... > > You can compress RMAN backup pieces at O/S level once they have been > > created > > but keep in mind that these are not directly readable by RMAN. You > will > > have to > > manually uncompress these backup pieces before making them available > to > > RMAN for > > restore. > > ... > > > > Does anyone do this or have any comments/thoughts? > > TIA. > > Dianna G. > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >
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