Almost true. If you are going to use a local attached tape device you can
use the Legatto Single Server version of Legato that comes with 9i and
backup to that tape device. Of course this dosen't support networked backups
or robotic tape devices.
RF
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Sent: Wednesday, Jan
Ah! There's the rub...
RMAN isn't "free" unless you are only using device-type=DISK. If you are
going to use device-type=SBT-TAPE, then some media-management vendor like
Veritas or Legato or whomever is going to charge you a *bundle* to
integrate.
Oracle purposely did this so they would not hav
Ditto what Jared said. It was bad!
--- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, well, I've heard that claim too.
>
> It may actually work now, but a very capable DBA ( 2
> actually )
> spent quite a bit of time testing this with no good
> results.
>
> And then there was the SQL BT glit
I don't believe RMAN does Oracle block level compression during the backup
process. This was one of the original reasons Oracle support was giving
SQLBT users trouble when they needed recovery support.
Regards,
Bill Burke
"The Kinder and Gentler DBA"
IOUG University Master Class Faculty 2001-200
Yes, well, I've heard that claim too.
It may actually work now, but a very capable DBA ( 2 actually )
spent quite a bit of time testing this with no good results.
And then there was the SQL BT glitch that left one of my former
coworkers without a certain TBS in the DW for 6 weeks.
Yes, 6 weeks.
I think SQLBackTrack can get the table data back from the backup file without the need
to create a partial database on another server and then export the table from it.
I remember seeing a demo where a dropped table was recovered by the BMC rep.
- Kirti
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Sent: Monda
RMAN Does everything that SQL Backtrack does, for free. :-)
In fact, last I heard, BMC was planning on altering SQL Backtrack so that it
is really nothing more than a nice fancy front end to RMAN. When I was
at CSX we moved away from SQL Backtrack to RMAN and never had any regrets.
The only issue
