Are Snapshot tools faster than RMAN ?
York35Aug 8 2012 — edited Aug 8 2012Version : 11.2 on Solaris, AIX
All our production DBs are backed up by some Hitachi tool (apparently it is called ShadowImage) . Apparently they put all the tablespaces in Backup mode and 'take a snap' . Our BAU team says this is faster.
On an event of DB Crash Is it easier to restore, recover from these 'snapshots' ?
Are these snapshots much faster than RMAN ?