Oracle-L: Re: RMAN: I don't trust it

From: Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:14:01 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00548EA7.20030210201401@fatcity.com>

On Monday 10 February 2003 07:23 pm, Richard Ji wrote:
> Lyndon,
>
> You are comparing Apple with Orange here. I can backup my hsql database
> which is stored in a text file with:
>

What's hsql ?

> cp my_db my_db.backup
>

I do not undertstand this command. Oracle database files are in binary format. Simply copying does not turn it into text sql scripts.

Could you please explain further? Thanks.

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