Re: Backing up intro please

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:08:33 -0800
Message-ID: <41e6f156_1@127.0.0.1>

Joe wrote:

> "Frank van Bortel" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:cs5o22$ae1$1_at_news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
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>>Joe wrote:

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>>What's your OS?

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> Windows XP
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>>Find out which files belong to your database; query
>>datafiles, logs and controlfiles. Possibly tempfile,
>>depending on the version of your oracle, and wither
>>you use 'em or not.
>>Shut down your instance; backup all files you found
>>in the previous step, and the password file.

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> I don't like she sound of this "manual" way - too easy for me to miss
> something
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>>I assume you already have a backup of the oracle
>>environment, or take it as a calculated risk not
>>to backup, but reinstall.

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> Yes
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>>Or: fire up rman and backup database. rman
>>allows for incremental backups; the above method
>>is not.
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>>More details (lots of 'em...) on e.g. OTN
>>(otn.oracle.com) or Dizwell (http://www.dizwell.com/html/backup.html)

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> OK thanks. I suppose what I'm really after some sort of step-by-step idiots
> guide to incremental backups and restore.

Read the RMAN documentation at otn.oracle.com.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 16:08:33 CST