RE: Tablespace Backup question

From: <sean.hull_at_pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:49:06 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <10521.108081@fatcity.com>

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Rachel Carmichael wrote:

> What Oracle does do, that is different in backup mode, is write full
> database blocks to the log files, instead of just enough information to
> recover the transaction. This ensures that even if split blocks are written
> to the backup copy of the datafile (your process starts to copy the file and
> Oracle writes to it in the middle of the copy), you will have a consistent
> picture of that block in the log file.

Rachel:

I guess I figured Oracle was *ONLY* writing to redologs. Thanks for the clarification. Received on Wed Jun 07 2000 - 12:49:06 CDT