Wow! Heady!!
It's mighty nice of you to include my name in this
illustrious list, Mladen; but I don't consider myself to be in the
same league :) Better yet, count yourself in there.
Talking about the business at hand - you are
absolutely right; one of the "myths" (of the several) is that RMAN is free. It
is, as long as you don't put it on tape. Once you bring tape to the picture, you
are talking money, sometimes big money (as in Tivoli), sometimes small (as in
BrightStor). However, the solution to usedisk could still be relevant and
applicable in some cases, especially in small companies.
Besides the Freeman book, I would also suggest
another one - Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference by Darl Kuhn and Scott Schulze, ISBN
0-596-00233-5. It predates the Freeman book and I learned my ropes from it. It's
a pocket reference; but it's truly one of those things where size belies the
content.
Learning curve could be formidable. Remember you
need to learn a new "language", and it is arcane. When youventure into
territories of tuning the tape buffers, etc, the process could be quite
involved. I just finished setting up and tuning a RMAN setup for a 2 TB database
using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager agent and the details of the process using the
IBM Red Books was nightmarish!
Regards,
Arup Nanda
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