Mike - RMAN has two options - the recovery catalog and using the control
file of the target database. If you have only a single system, as I
understand the RMAN philosophy, you should use the control file option.
Also, from everything I've seen, export seems a fine way to keep the RMAN
schema backed up after you use it. This probably wouldn't be ideal for a
really large site with many RMAN activities occurring throughout the day.
Another idea I've seen is if you have two production systems, cross-mount
the RMAN catalogs so they back each other up.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Hi everybody,
I've taken responsibility of a couple of Oracle systems on NT (in
addition to my nice Solaris DBs). I'm setting up Legato to do the backups
online using the Legato Networker Oracle Module. After checking the Legato
docs, it seems that the only way of using this module is by integrating it
with RMAN. is this right?
Now, I'm sure that RMAN can do a good and flexible job. I've played
with it a little but I don't like the meeesssyyy way of backing up the RMAN
catalog.
In the Legato docs , there's a section that warns you :
" Preparing For Disaster
.
Ensure that your RMAN Recovery catalog is being backed up regularly.
."
Doesn't this imply that you need to perform the catalog backup
outside legato yourself?, so why did we buy it in the first place?
I know you could create another catalog to perform cross catalog backups but
that all sounds far to complicated and error prone.
Anyone have any tips for me?
[I'm much happier with my online backup scripts on Unix that I've been using
and tweeking for years.]
Mike.
Database Administrator
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