You do it hot backups are not incremental.
EBU hot backups are not incremental (Oracle 7)
RMAN hot backups CAN be incremental (Oracle 8)
HTH
tED
Konstantin Kivi wrote in message ...
>Winnie Liu <oracle_dba_at_zdnetmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess you got confused about the term HOT BACKUP.
>
>> When you perform a hot backup on your tablespace, you actually only put
the
>> tablespace on HOT BACKUP mode and then use OS copy command to copy the
WHOLE
>> datafiles to whatever places you want it to go. At the same time, you
will
>> need to backup all the archive log files in the process of the HOT
BACKUP. I
>> don't think that it is possible to do an incremental hot backups at all!!
>> Since the data block is changing all the time (including the header), it
is
>> impossible to do an incremental hot backup.
>
>> I think you need need to read some books about backup and recovery. The
>> method to recovery it to point of failure is like this:
>
>> SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
>> COLD HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT
>
>Hello All!
>
>What are you talking about?
>
>Can't you do hot backup for files in TABLESPACE_A on Monday,
>TS_B on Tuesday , TS_C on Wednesday ...
>then when it crashes on Saturday put it all together
>and feed it with archive logs that you have since Monday morning.
>If this is not incremental backup then see my first question.
>You can also backup intensively changing data more often the other
>part of the database.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Sincerely Yours, Konstantin Kivi, Russia, konst_at_sirena.rinet.ru
> aka <k-kivi_at_usa.net>, 2:5020/457.24_at_fidonet.org
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 18:51:18 CST
