Re: RMAN question

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:14:51 +0100, Eberhard Niendorf
<eberhard.niendorf_schrott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>JW wrote:
>
>> ... I think this may be that the
>> actual RMAN backup command is running on the database server, not on
>> the RMAN client's server. Is this true ?
>
>Yes, it's true. The rman client program is only the command interface which
>runs as a normal client, for remote access conneted by SQL-NET to the
>instance. But the RMAN engine (backup/restore/duplicate ...) run always on
>the database server (as packages ...), so that the backup disks must be
>accessible from the machine where the instance is running. It's not like
>exp/imp.
>
>Eberhard Niendorf

Thanks for the reply.

How about the normal Oracle Backup command ? I mean the traditional
way to put the Oracle into backup mode, then run the backup command.

I still need to backup the database to a remote disk as there is not
enough local disk space available without expensive disk expansion.

Thanks.

JW.

.

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