RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog

  • From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:35:03 +0800

If I have to restore a 9i Database,  5 years from now, I would need the
Hardware and OS that supports it and also the 9i ORACLE_HOME.
My organisations's backup strategies do try to consider OS and Oracle versions
but cannot guarantee hardware availability !

Hemant
At 11:26 PM Wednesday, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
>Hemant,
>
>You have to admit that this may never be available.  Think about it.  You
>will be migrating to new releases about 4 times between now and 5 years from
>now.  Rman version 13x would probably choke and puke anyway when it tried to
>restore the version 9i controlfile!  :)
>
>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:10 AM
>To: thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog
>
>
>
>What I would like to be able to do is ... 5 years from now, restore
>_todays_  backup.
>Wouldn't I be able to use [then, in 2009], SET UNTIL "13-OCT-04" and
>RESTORE CONTROLFILE ?
>
>The "contradiction" I saw was in the Support Analyst's first point " .. its
>too far away" and then second point "there's no limit with SET
>UNTIL ...".
>
>Hemant


Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital



               
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