The fear is just that they've never used RMAN. I don't know the reason, it's just not a utility that's in their arsenal for whatever reason.
Export/Import did work for them, so all is good. David Boyes wrote:
I'll add to the voices using export/import. Many table items in Oracle are stored with internal representations of the data. The export/import process converts the internal representation to something portable between systems so that you get the values you expect back when changing system architectures. Restoring a backup doesn't do that. I don't understand their fear of RMAN, though. RMAN has been the recommended backup/restore utility for Oracle for years, and it's pretty much the only supported backup/restore utility for any of the offline storage things. AFAIK, it's the only thing that can take dumps of the database while online. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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