10G RMAN Testing Part 2 - Just call me “The Recovery Kid”
I’ll begin part 2 of my series on RMAN by discussing a few of the 10G enhancements that we are interested in. I’ll finish this series with our 10G RMAN test plan. Considering that we will be using this new release of RMAN to back up and recover our multiple terabyte data warehouses, I won’t rest easy until I know I have tested every command that we use here at Giant Eagle.
Call me paranoid but I will never, ever, ever trust any tool with my career. The test plan included in this blog may seem like overkill to you, but if it reduces my personal anxiety and lowers my (and my unit’s) stress during our next recovery, the time spent testing RMAN will be well worth it. The more stressed you are during a recovery, the greater the chance you will have of making mistakes. Recoveries are stressful enough. I don’t want to be wondering if the tool is going to work.