From HANDM@polaroid.com Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:22:50 -0700 From: "Hand, Michael T" Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:22:50 -0700 Subject: RE: backup of large databases Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Ed, We have a 550Gb database which we backup nightly via a disk mirror set split.  The mirror set is then mounted on our failover/reporting hardward and written to tape.  Archived redo logs are written to tape twice daily and kept on disk for 3 days.   8063 on Compaq Tru64   Mike Hand Polaroid Corp -----Original Message-----From: Ed Lewis [mailto:eglewis@hotmail.com]Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:51 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: backup of large databases Hello,     I'm curious how people handle the backups for     large/very large databases; 200gb or greater.