I will not call it a horror but something you would want to watch out, if you don't use RMAN Repository database and rely on controlfile, the scenerio which can create problems is if you want to restore an older file, you may not find rman information about it in controlfile, since it keeps only a limited information depending upon RECORD_KEEP_SIZE thing. So your older backups may become useless.

HTH

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From: MCCCLAYTON [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x9227856.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tue 3/29/2005 1:09 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Any Hard Lessons about RMAN?






I may be using RMAN in my near future and was wondering, with Oracle 9i (on
Sun 4800), if there are any REAL WORLD issues I should keep in mind when
using RMAN. What are the DBA Horrors that have been a hard lesson learned?


Mark




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