Paul - What Peter said. What is your motivation for moving from SQL-Backtrack? Saving money? Like anything else, you will experience some learning during the transition. Fortunately today there are some good books, most notably Robert Freeman's Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery. The most important thing I've found is to try to clearly understand your approach to RMAN and any assumptions you are making. RMAN is designed to work for a broad variety of Oracle sites, so it has a lot of capability, which sometimes can be a little confusing. Ask questions here. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hitchman, Peter Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:22 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Switching to RMAN Paul, My experiences are all good, but I have no experience of moving for another 3rd party tool. Once you get the environment set-up, using rman to backup , create duplicates and standbys is easy. There is a learning curve with the syntax, but it is that way with any new tool and the 9i version is actually more succinct than the 8i version. Regards Pete -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of paul bennett Sent: 27 September 2004 23:04 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Switching to RMAN We are considering switching from SQL-Backtrack to RMAN. Has anyone else switched from SQL-Backtrack or other backup software? If so what were your reasons for making the switch? What problems did you experience as part of the switch? Based on your experience, would you recommend switching to RMAN. Thanks for any insights that could help us, Paul W. Bennett, MA DBA II Good Samaritan Society 4800 W. 57th St. Sioux Falls, SD 57117 Work: (605) 362-3998 e-mail: pbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxx ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l