Re: Question on Backup and Recovery Software comments.

Hi Mike,
Backup only protects against power outage, disk failure etc. As during backup the database is being considered as a logical whole, it doesn't protect against users.
If someone accidentally drops a table or deletes a few rows, and you don't have exports, you will be forced to recover them using point in time recovery, which can be very time-consuming, and will block everyone from using the database.

Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Mike Schmidt wrote in message <7hnuhc$s1b$2_at_autumn.news.rcn.net>...
>Question to the group...
>
>Could anyone offer any comments on the following for a backup/recovery
>option.
>
>Legato
>ArcServe
>Seagate Agent ...so far this has been the easiest to setup and perform
>online backups but I have been having
> problems recovering the system.
>Exporting vs Importing the dbase.
>
>All for ORACLE servers..
>
>Mike Schmidt MCP/MCSE
>mkschmidt_at_erols.com
>
>
Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 23:37:44 CDT