Production Database Advance backup Strategy

Hi,
Now I am taking the backup with Rman Scripts daily after 6 PM. But the problem is that my company can not afford any data loss. I want to implement the backup advance backup startegy. Please I am going implement the advance backup strategy. Environment is
1.EBS R12.0.4
2.Database 10g R2.
4.Plateform RHEL AS 4.0.
Please guide me step by step how can I implement this backup startegy.
Help will be highly appreciated.
Regards.
pzdba

Now I am taking the backup with Rman Scripts daily after 6 PM. But the problem is that my company can not afford any data loss. I want to implement the backup advance backup startegy. Please I am going implement the advance backup strategy. Environment is What is you current backup mode
What kind of advance strategy are you looking for
If you are in archivelog mode and have your archivelogs
If you are backing up full
if you are backing up to the disk and your mirrored that disk in case of loosing disk failure
What kind of advance backup strategy you need more ?
what you need is testing the consistency of you backups. If they are consistent if you can recover the database it means you dont have data loss option with your current strategy.
Also you need to be sure about the time of backup to cover your needs.

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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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FYI
==
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Edited by: 924453 on Mar 30, 2012 1:43 AM

924453 wrote:
Database is up and running but am facing the problem in RMAN below are the details
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Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Fri Mar 30 02:35:31 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: LAGOPROD (DBID=3989619179)
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using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
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RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
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could you please help on it why its throughing on error
FYI
==
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Based on your experience, should i bother to perform a daily export of production database of such size?
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Fran wrote:
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Production Database Backup

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Hi,
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Due to the structure of the library I have the "originals" and "modified" images, when edited some. When importing a library into another without copying them I have some/many thumbnails twice. How do I prevent iPhoto to use the original thumb when a modified exists?
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Is this a better backup strategy now that I incorporate offsite refresh once per week?
Thanks so much for you input in advance. I really do appreciate it.
David

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Bilal Tahir wrote:
hi,
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And the fact that it is a HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (why the shouting, btw) is really irrelevant. To oracle, it's all just data. Hotel management data is no different than automobile manufacturing data.

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