Free IT Book: Why New Systems Fail
This week’s free IT book is Phil Simon’s Why New Systems Fail: An Insider’s Guide to Successful IT Projects. Simon provides the necessary framework to “minimize the chance of system failure before, during, and after beginning IT projects.” Win this book for some real-world and specific tips, tools and insight. You know the rules: Answer [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  2:03 PM
DDL, DOS, Exchange 2003, Giveaways, IT answers, IT Books, Leased line, Linux, MPLS, RMAN, RMAN backup

RMAN Retention Policy
I’m currently reviewing our company’s backup strategy and in particular our retention policy. Currently, due to low disk space, we only keep the most recent backups on disk. The previous nights backup is transferred to tape and then deleted from disk before another backup is taken. Are we able to retain the valid catalog information [...]

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2010  10:46 AM
Backup, Backup and restore, Data Retention Policy, Oracle RMAN, RMAN backup

Oracle 10g
What’s the best of breadth backup/recovery policy using RMAN 10g?

Answer Question   |  January 1, 2009  7:31 PM
Oracle 10g, RMAN backup

Turning off archive log and enabling back archive logs, implication on RMAN backup
As a part of application upgrade we temporary turned off archiving and swithed on post upgrade. My intention is to full level 0 rman backup. Do i need to recreate dbid for this incarnation ?

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2008  11:14 PM
Oracle backup, Oracle Recovery Manager, Oracle RMAN, RMAN, RMAN archive log backups, RMAN backup