Re: DB Backup Question

dmeng_at_focal.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> We are running into tape capacity problems and unix admin came to me asking
> if we could skip backing up some drives. Right now we are doing hot backups
> on all production databases to disk and then the whole server get backed up
> to tape. Since the backups for open database files are not valid, the unix
> admin asked if we could only backup the drives that has the backup dumps.
> One side of me says this can be done but another nagging side of me is not
> sure about this. So I am posting this to the list and see what other folks
> think of this one.
> Thanks
> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
> Focal Communications
> 847-954-8328
>

Dennis,

  Do not listen to your nagging side, you are totally right. Backing up the backup is enough.

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