Re: Backup Sanity Check

Frank van Bortel wrote:

> Preston wrote:
>
> > Sorry, you've completely lost me there. Unless I've misunderstood
> > the RMAN commands, that script should do a full backup the first
> > time it's run, then incrementals on subsequent runs which refresh
> > the full backup with any changes. I'm not sure what you mean by
> > "change the incrementals with full backups"?
> >
> > Restoring time isn't really an issue I don't think. Most of our
> > clients' databases are only a couple of gig max with a handfull of
> > users.
> >
> What Brain said. In order to keep restore time low, one would
> do level 0 backups every now and then.

See reply to Brian.

> And, in the light of the small size of your clients' databases,
> why not just take full backups?

Mainly because one of our clients is growing exponentially, & I want everyone to have the same configuration. Also an element of 'future proofing'.

-- 
Preston.