RE: Backups versus snapshots
From: Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:30:45 -0400
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As the subject of a conversation "Isn't he that guy who is overly paranoid?" which after it was reflected back to me I replied: "I'm a DBA - of course the world is out to get me,"
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:30:45 -0400
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As the subject of a conversation "Isn't he that guy who is overly paranoid?" which after it was reflected back to me I replied: "I'm a DBA - of course the world is out to get me,"
I'll say +42 to Kevin's response.
And of course you don't overwrite your online backup of all the files of tablespace X making the new online backup of tablespace X, do you?
mwf
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Subject: Re: Backups versus snapshots
I'll try to be as succinct as I can. If you ever need to see your data again, do not trade anything for backups.
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