If you're not in archive log mode and can afford to lose a day's or a week's
worth of data then just shut the DB down, copy files to tape, and bring DB
back up again.
--
Jim Gregory
Principal Consultant for Keane, Inc.
Currently assigned to NCR
"Opinions are my own and do not reflect
those of Keane or my clients"
Yulia <yuliam_at_catuity.com> wrote in message
news:8gihvn$m46$1_at_merki.connect.com.au...
> I am a newbe for the Oracle
> and my question is:
>
> We run Oracle 8.1.6 Enterprise on Solaris
> and we do not have a standard backup procedure
> for our development database.
>
> This database is not business critical, so we are not
> goint to use transaction log backups and recovery - just a
> full database backup on a weekly (or daily) basis.
>
> I tryed to read of RMAN and I realised that to use
> that utility I need to create a separate database and a catalog
> (?) on a separate unix box which is not feasable for us.
>
> What is the simpliest backup startegy for the development
> environment like ours?
> If you have a siple sample backup script(s) - it would be
> really helpful.
>
> How to implement it without using additional physical resources?
> The best way for us is to perform daily backups onto a disk and
> copy them to a tapes.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ioulia
>
>
Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
