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Re: Inheriting a "interesting" recovery process

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 06:16:49 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380608040616l397afc15l24d2c96b3229b451@mail.gmail.com>


On 8/4/06, Guerra, Abraham J <AGUERRA_at_amfam.com> wrote:
>
>
> Your very best friends are: 'Cold Backup' (hot whenever you can't do
> colds) and make sure your database is in archivelog mode if you want
> full recovery...

Please explain why a cold backup is necessary.

Before 10g there are rather limited circumstances under which a cold backup is necessary.

With 10g and the (supported) ability to recover through a resetlogs, there are even fewer reasons for it.

If your database stores traffic tickets, then keep doing whatever you're
> doing ;-)
>
>

Wouldn't that be nice.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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Received on Fri Aug 04 2006 - 08:16:49 CDT

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