Re: NEWBIE:Can Enterprise Backup Do Incremental Backups

[This followup was posted to comp.databases.oracle.server and a copy was sent to the cited author.]

Pin Pin wrote....
> Dear Oracle Backup Gurus:
>
> I looked at the Oracle web page - I found Oracle Enterprise
> Backup.
>
> There is however no mention of "incremental backups".
> In my experience, Informix can provide for incremental backups
> but I'm not sure if Oracle can do this. I remember in 7.1.5,
> we had to backup all the *.ctl,*.dbf files everytime. There was no such
> thing then as an incremental backup.
>
> For small instances, this is ok but one of my instances is about
> 550GB with many interdependencies in my tablespaces. Does anyone
> know how to do incremental backups in Oracle ?
>
> My warmest regards and appreciate any comments from anyone...

SQL*BackTrack by Datatools (now owned by BMW) handles incremental backups of Oracle databases. --- Neil

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Neil Greene			Senior System Engineer / Oracle DBA	
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